The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its
emergence in western Europe at the end of the seventeenth century
to today. Suit-wearing figures such as the Savile Row gentleman and
the Wall Street businessman have long embodied ideas of tradition,
masculinity, power and respectability, but the suit has also been
used to disrupt concepts of gender and conformity. Adopted and
subverted by women, artists, musicians and social revolutionaries
through the decades – from dandies and Sapeurs to the Zoot Suit
and Le Smoking – the suit is also a device for challenging the
status quo. For all those interested in the history of menswear,
this beautifully illustrated book offers new perspectives on this
most mundane, and poetic, product of modern culture.
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