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Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander (1995, Paperback) 
Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander (1995, Paperback)

 
Sex and Suits by Anne Hollander (1995, Paperback)

Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Series: Kodansha Globe Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1568361017
ISBN-13: 9781568361017
Product ID: EPID1084267
Description: In this fascinating sociological study, the acclaimed art historian Hollander examines men's attire since the 13th century and it has influenced women's dress, social behavior, and design throughout the ages. With 45 photographs.
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Synopsis
In this fascinating sociological study, the acclaimed art historian Hollander examines men's attire since the 13th century and it has influenced women's dress, social behavior, and design throughout the ages. With 45 photographs.

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Publication Date:1995-09-01
Series:Kodansha Globe Series

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Height:8.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:9.6 oz

Publisher's Note
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 for men: show their sexuality to be central, serious and interesting, rather than irrational, shallow and dangerous. She shows us, too, how men - now that women have adopted every element of male style - are recapturing the color and ornament they long found taboo, without giving up the potent beauty of tailored suits, which women have made universal. Richly informed, surprising, entertaining, Sex and Suits gives us a fresh view of what we have long taken for granted, and a new context for thinking about our society.

Industry Reviews
"Anne Hollander does many good works in her meticulously wrought book 'Sex and Suits', and those of us in some way responsible for fashion are forever in her debt...her book is a masterly endorsement of fashion's bid to be included among the modern arts."
New York Times Book Review - Bill Blass

"In SEX & SUITS (1994), [Hollander] proposed that the 19th-century revolution that forced men to abandon their status-laden frippery for a somberly egalitarian garb was driven by our delight in harmonious design, predating by many decades the democratization of women's wear."
New York Times - Francine Du Plessix Gray (12/19/1999)

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