num_pages: 244
description: This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meaning from medieval Europe to twentieth-century America. Breward's work provides the reader with a clear guide to the changes in style and taste and shows that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society especially when concerned with sexual and body politics.
language: English
title: The Culture of Fashion. A New History of Fashionable Dress
publisher: Manchester University Press