Frock Consciousness
Rosemary Hill: Fashion and frocks, 20 January 2000
The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Fashion Writing
edited by Judith Watt.
Viking, 360 pp., £20, November 1999,0 670 88215 1 Show More
edited by Judith Watt.
Viking, 360 pp., £20, November 1999,
Twentieth-Century Fashion
by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye.
Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £8.95, November 1999,0 500 20321 0 Show More
by Valerie Mendes and Amy de la Haye.
Thames and Hudson, 288 pp., £8.95, November 1999,
A Century of Fashion
by François Baudot.
Thames and Hudson, 400 pp., £19.95, November 1999,0 500 28178 5 Show More
by François Baudot.
Thames and Hudson, 400 pp., £19.95, November 1999,
The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914
by Christopher Breward.
Manchester, 278 pp., £45, September 1999,0 7190 4799 4 Show More
by Christopher Breward.
Manchester, 278 pp., £45, September 1999,
Black in Fashion
by Valerie Mendes.
Victoria & Albert Museum, 144 pp., £35, October 1999,1 85177 278 2 Show More
by Valerie Mendes.
Victoria & Albert Museum, 144 pp., £35, October 1999,
“... Tide, making brilliant cartoon-like use of clothes. Her description of an artistic party in Little James Street is worth a chapter of sociohistorical analysis of the interwar garçonne: ‘Emma – in green sacque that looks exactly like démodé window-curtain, sandals and varnished toe-nails ... Am struck by presence of many pairs of ... ”