Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008341236/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 23 of
23
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist, is our savvy guide and interpreter on this tour through the history of fashion, providing unique insights into how changing sex roles, political upheavals, and class structure have influenced costume. Whether she is describing the enormous amount of clothing worm by early Victorian women or illuminating the significance of the long robes worn throughout the centuries by again men to connote eminence, her analysis is playful, clever, and always on target." "This edition of a work long considered a classic features a new introduction by Alison Lurie that examines the state of fashion today."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11614119.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize - winning novelist, is our savvy guide and interpreter on this tour through the history of fashion, providing unique insights into how changing sex roles, political upheavals, and class structure have influenced costume. Whether she is describing the enormous amount of clothing worm by early Victorian women or illuminating the significance of the long robes worn throughout the centuries by again men to connote eminence, her analysis is playful, clever, and always on target." "This edition of a work long considered a classic features a new introduction by Alison Lurie that examines the state of fashion today."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Clothing as a sign system -- Youth and age -- Fashion and time -- Fashion and place -- Fashion and status -- Fashion and opinion -- Color and pattern -- Male and female -- Fashion and sex.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-266).".
- catalog extent "xiv, 272 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0805062440 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Henry Holt,".
- catalog subject "391 21".
- catalog subject "Clothing and dress Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Costume Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Fashion Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "GT525 .L87 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Clothing as a sign system -- Youth and age -- Fashion and time -- Fashion and place -- Fashion and status -- Fashion and opinion -- Color and pattern -- Male and female -- Fashion and sex.".
- catalog title "The language of clothes / Alison Lurie ; with illustrations assembled by Doris Palca.".
- catalog type "text".