2016. Hardcover. Beautifully illustrated and written with authority, Suit offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and at the same time poetic and beautiful, product of modern culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AKTH; JFCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 248 x 24. Weight in Grams: 776. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Suit: Form, Function and Style
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1780235232
ISBN 13: 9781780235233
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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A beautifully tailored history of this fashion staple—at once a garment of tradition, power, and subversion.

The Suit 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—from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit and Le Smoking—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.

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Christopher Breward is the director of National Museums Scotland. He is the author of The Hidden Consumer, Fashion, and Fashioning London.

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