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John Harvey: Peacockery, 7 May 1998
The Man of Fashion: Male Peacocks and Perfect Gentlemen
by Colin McDowell.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £29.95, October 1997,0 500 01797 2 Show More
by Colin McDowell.
Thames and Hudson, 208 pp., £29.95, October 1997,
“... military, civilian, athletic or ‘leisure’. Yet we have all seen pictures, like those Colin McDowell reproduces in The Man of Fashion, of medieval and Renaissance men wearing (not all at the same time) slippers with long rising toes, peascod doublets with a kind of hooked belly curling out and round the genitals, sleeves that puff out ... ”