The Language of Clothes

Alison Lurie

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ISBN 10: 0394513029 ISBN 13: 9780394513027

Published by Random House, 1981

Language: English

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Title: The Language of Clothes
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1981
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0394513029
ISBN 13: 9780394513027
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Weight: 1.87 pounds

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Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist, is our savvy guide and interpreter on this tour through the history of fashion, providing unique insights into how changing sex roles, political upheavals, and class structure have influenced costume. Whether she is describing the enormous amount of clothing worm by early Victorian women or illuminating the significance of the long robes worn throughout the centuries by again men to connote eminence, her analysis is playful, clever, and always on target.

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Alison Lurie is the Pulitzer-prize winning author of many highly praised novels, including, most recently, The Last Resort. She currently divides her time between Ithaca, Key West, and London.

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