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by Anne Hollander

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Since the dawn of western fashion in the Middle Ages, women's dress has never stopped evolving, yet menswear has seen far fewer style revolutions. At the centre of the male wardrobe is the suit: relatively unchanged since the 17th century, its cut and cloth suggest athleticism, seriousness, sexuality and strength - qualities which contrasted with the perceived superficiality and frivolity of female dress, and eventually led to the adoption of the suit into the female wardrobe where it remains to this day.

In Sex and Suits brilliant essayist and art critic Anne Hollander charts the development of men's and women's fashion from their divergence in the medieval period to their convergence through to the late 20th century. Challenging the idea that the suit's success is merely down to its practicality, this trailblazing book argues that men have been fashion's true style-setters and that as women's fashion has taken on elements of men's style through tailoring, so men have reclaimed the embellishment and colour of past eras.

First published in 1994 to great acclaim, this classic text is as fresh and provocative as ever and remains a must-read for students, scholars and anyone fascinated by the history of fashion and gender.

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  • Title Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress
  • Author Anne Hollander
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publication date 2016-08-25
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781474250658 / 1474250653
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.4 in (24.38 x 18.80 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Fashion & Grooming
  • Library of Congress subjects Clothing and dress - History, Clothing and dress - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015043879
  • Dewey Decimal Code 391

About the author

Anne Hollander was an independent scholar and critic whose work changed the way we look at fashion and art. A fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and former president of PEN American Center, she was the author of several influential books on the subject of costume and fabric in art, including Seeing through Clothes, Sex and Suits and Fabric of Vision. She also published Moving Pictures about the influence of painting on cinema, and Feeding the Eye, a selection of essays. Her highly innovative books are rigorous, stylish, provocative and insightful.
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