The Culture of Fashion

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.

• Author
• Christopher Breward

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 304

• Publisher
• Manchester University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780719041259

• Genres
• history, fashion, art, research

• Release date
• 1995