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Frock Consciousness

Rosemary Hill

  • The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Fashion Writing edited by Judith Watt
  • Twentieth-Century Fashion by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye
  • A Century of Fashion by François Baudot
  • The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914 by Christopher Breward
  • Black in Fashion by Valerie Mendes

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From the archive

Diary
Jenny Diski is dragged to the shoe shop

At the V&A
Peter Campbell on fashion photography

Prada Queen
Elaine Showalter goes shopping

Special Frocks
Jenny Turner on Justine Picardie