Alison Lurie. The language of clothes. 1983

Alison Lurie. The language of clothes. Hamlyn Paperback. 1983.

The classic book about the clothes we wear and what they say about us. Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, is our savvy guide and interpreter on this tour through the history of fashion. She provides fascinating insights into how changing sex roles, political upheavals, and class structure have influenced costume. Whether she is describing the enormous amount of clothing worn by early Victorian women or illuminating the significance of the long robes worn by aging men throughout history to connote eminence, her analysis is playful, clever, and always on target.