Sex and Suits

Name: Sex and Suits
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ISBN: 9780679430964

ISBN-10: 0679430962

ISBN-13: 9780679430964

Edition: 1994

Authors: Anne Hollander

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"From an art historian admired for her brilliance and wit, a provocative argument for the value of modern fashion as sexual expression, with the tailored suit as its strongest example." "Dress was equally showy for men and women until the late eighteenth century, when natural simplicity and understatement on the model of the Classical Greek nude became fashionable, but for men's clothes only. After that, obvious sexual display in dress was left to women - and it came to seem both shameful and esthetically inferior by comparison, despite its variety." "Hollander shows how modern women adapted men's tailoring to their richer scheme of display, making suits do for women what they had long done…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/23/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English