| Description |
336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
I. Dress coat & frock coat 1760-1850. The Brummell era: French Revolution and Anglomania ; The century that wore pants ; London dandy, Paris fop ; The tailor's art: cutting, measuring, accounting ; Romantics in age-old clothes ; Male bonding: boulevard and Jockey-Club. -- II. Overcoat & morning coat 1850-1914. Overcoats and ready-made fictions ; Second English swells and Victorian gentlemen ; Fin de siècle I: Stovepipes and iron collars ; Fin de siècle II: High-life elegance during la Belle Epoque ; Fin de siècle III: Edwardian sportiness, comfort, style ; 1900 street apparel. -- III. Lounge suit & business suit 1914-1940. The avant-garde wardrobe ; Cadence and decadence in the Roaring Twenties ; Oxford bags, plus-fours, tweeds and flannels ; Letters from London ; Shoulders in the thirties: the birth of the classic look ; A new deal: American stylishness ; Hoods and good lookers: underworld fashion. -- IV. Pin stripes & black leather 1940-1990. Zazous and zoot suits: funny fashions for a phony war ; A Marshall Plan for Saint-Germain-des-Prés ; Heavyweights and featherweights in the 1950s ; Teddy boys, leather boys: from frock coat to jeans ; Tempo de Roma: Europe, Italian-style ; Pop fashion on Carnaby Street ; French-style mods, 1961-1968: the "Minets" ; The Cardin line and new French style ; Anti-fashion, revival rage ; Kings of sportswear, princes of unstructured tailoring ; Tribes and fashion victims ; Fashion winners, fashion losers |
| Summary |
The post-World War II fashion revolution is described in Part Four (1940-1990) from zoot suits, spurred by the black American jazz scene, to London's Mod fashion of the 60s, Pierre Cardin and the new French style, the emergence of Italian chic, and the hippie and punk styles of the 70s. The book is completed by a perceptive discussion of contemporary designers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Comme des Garcons, and Yohji Yamamoto |
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A History of Men's Fashion is divided into four parts that follow the sartorial evolution of the male wardrobe from the era of Beau Brummell, which created the model of the gentlemen and the dandy, to the "anti-fashion" trends of the early 1990s. Part One (1760-1850) traces the era of tails and the frock coat, the emergence of the pantaloon and the influence of Anglomania on European fashion. Men's fashion in Europe's fin de siecle climate, and the impact of ready-made garments are discussed in Part Two (1850-1914). Part Three (1914-1940) introduces the aesthetic of the sweater and the variations on the suit and vest as part of the post-World War I moral liberation and economic euphoria, and traces changes all the way through to the New Deal and the new American elegance |
| Analysis |
Geschichte |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 330) and indexes |
| Subject |
Costume -- History.
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Fashion -- History.
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Men's clothing -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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| Author |
Dusinberre, Deke.
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Martin, Richard (Richard Harrison)
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| LC no. |
94171875 |
| ISBN |
2080135368 |
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