The Suit: Form, Function and Style
In The Suit, Christopher Breward unstitches the story of our most familiar garment. He shows how its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century reflects important political rivalries and the rise of modern democratic society. He follows the development of technologies in the textile industry and shows how they converge on the suit as an ideal template of modern fashion, which he follows across the globe - to South and East Asia especially - where the suit became an icon of Western civilization.
Author Christopher Breward
ISBN 9781780235233
Category Fashion Books