The Suit: Form, Function and Style Christopher Breward

The Suit: Form, Function and Style

Author: Christopher Breward
Add Your Review
$28.99 2899
Out Stock
Successful pre-order.Thanks for contacting us!
Wishlist Compare
Book Title
The Suit: Form, Function and Style
Author
Christopher Breward
ISBN
9781789144963
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Christopher BrewardPublisher: Reaktion BooksPublished: 10/01/2021ISBN: 9781789144963Pages: 240Weight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.00w x 0.60d
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Christopher Breward
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 10/01/2021
ISBN: 9781789144963
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.00w x 0.60d
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Christopher Breward
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 10/01/2021
ISBN: 9781789144963
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.00w x 0.60d