First published in 1966, View of Fashion is a collection of
articles on fashions shows, parties and people in London, Paris,
Italy and New York, including a section looking back to the
surprising sportswomen of Victorian and Edwardian times. Lady M.P.s
are observed from the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, the
Headmistress and the Board of Governors are studied from the School
Hall on Speech Day, tennis champions in the Players' Tearoom at
Wimbledon. Fuller figures descend upon Woburn Abbey by helicopter,
model girls weather a stormy crossing on the Queen Elizabeth, fancy
goods are reviewed at Brighton, costume exhibitions at the Victoria
and Albert Museum, corsetry in the River Room at the Savoy. There
are profiles of well-known personalities on the fashion scene and a
section on men's fashions and male models. Alison Adburgham's view
of fashion is both accurate and acute; often unexpected, never
distorted. It picks out the essential, mocks the meaningless and
notes significance in the nuance. It is view with which Haro is in
sensitive accord, and which he here brilliantly illustrates with
ten full pages and many incidental drawings. This book will be of
interest to students of fashion, journalism and social history.
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