160 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Clothes protect our vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool. They help us show that we are young or old, rich or poor, at work or play, and whether we may be good to know. But though they are basic, much as food and shelter are - and also may be beautiful - they have long had a bad press in serious, moral and philosophical writing. The main reason for this is that they are external to us, a... Read more
Acknowledgements The incident in Stubbylee Park 1. Why can't we trust our clothes? 2. On trend, off trend: fashion and freedom 3. What shall I wear, who shall I be? 4. Clothes and the body within the clothes 5. Team colours 6. Couturiers and objets d'art Conclusion: dream clothes and future clothes Further reading References Index
Biography
John Harvey is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge, UK, and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
"This combination of the personal with the imagined, expressed with verbal exuberance, is what drives Clothes.... Harvey makes the reader aware of all the important issues that clothes provoke – historical, theoretical, social, psychological, material, aesthetic." – Essays in Criticism
