Culture of Fashion A New History of Fashionable Dress

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.Breward, Christopher is the author of 'Culture of Fashion A New History of Fashionable Dress' with ISBN 9780719041259 and ISBN 0719041252.