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The Suit: Form, Function & Style

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Author Christopher Breward
ISBN 9781780235233
Published Language English
Publication Year 2016
Publisher Reaktion Books
Binding Hardback
Original Price £18
Pages 240
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Description

Offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and yet poetic and beautiful garment.

The SuitB unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition, masculinity, power and respectability, but the suit has also been used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and subverted by women, artists, musicians and social revolutionaries through the decades b from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking b the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo.

For all those interested in the history of menswear, this beautifully illustrated book offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and poetic, product of modern culture.