The suit
Subtitle: form, function and style
By: Christopher Breward
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781780235233
Subjects: Men's clothing; Suits (Clothing); History
Description: "Unpicks the story of [the suit], 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, the suit is also a device for challenging the status quo." --book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.