Sharp Suits: A Celebration Of Men's Tailoring

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EAN: 9781911624783

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This book contains everything you need to know about suits, from the traditional designs of the early 1900s, to innovative contemporary variations. It was awarded Financial Times' Fashion Book of the Year. Clothes maketh the man. For millions of men across the world the common denominator that identifies them is the suit. Just three and a half metres of fabric, some internal shaping elements, lining, buttons and several metres of thread are all it takes to produce the jacket-and-trouser combination that can be seen from boardrooms to bars, wherever men gather. In Sharp Suits we examine the fascinating history and evolution of the modern suit from the late seventeenth century to date. From eighteenth-century bespoke to the mass industrialization of the twentieth century, we see how the uniform of the ruling classes became the utilitarian outfit of the worker. A series of thematic chapters also illustrate how the universal staple of a man's wardrobe can play many different roles and, chameleon-like, can mean different things in different situations. From the Duke of Windsor to The Thin White Duke, David Bowie; from James Brown to The Jamel from Guys and Dolls to The Godfather, movie stars, rock stars, heroes and villains, philanthropists, presidents and gangsters - all these men and many more have dressed to impress in a matching jacket and trousers and have found that a suit will suit them very well. `Clothes can `do a job'. A well-cut suit can make you slimmer, taller, sexier, more elegant or business-like.' - Sir Paul Smith
Chapters include:
Convention or Fashion?
The single-breasted suit
A Question of Balance the Double-breasted suit
Princes Among Men
The striped suit
The Italian Job
The checked suit
US Male
The white suit
Passion from Paris
The Dormeuil suits
Lost in Music
The Bowie suits
The Magic of the Movies

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Liczba stron: 208

Wymiary: 20.1x26.1

Typ okładki:twarda okładka

Wydawca: PAVILION BOOKS

Autor:

Eric Musgrave

Tytuł:Sharp Suits: A Celebration Of Men's Tailoring

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Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / Art and Photography

EAN: 9781911624783

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