How to Read a Suit
Book Feature - How to Read a Suit by Lydia Edwards
Book Feature - How to Read a Suit by Lydia Edwards
HBL Note: I had so much fun featuring How to Read a Dress by Lydia Edwards, I jumped at the chance to feature How to Read a Suit. I got my PhD in fashion history, I love getting lost in the thick of fashion history research. I still teach fashion history courses online at Indiana State, so I still get to play around in the beauty of historic fashion every once in a while. I think I bring my fashion history background when I read and review historical fiction books. I love that Lydia Edwards is writing this great guide to reading historic costumes. Both of these guides would serve as wonderful textbooks for fashion history courses but also are just fun to read for the average reader.
Book Feature - How to Read a Suit by Lydia Edwards
From the publisher:
Fashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to year that are not always easily identifiable. With overviews of each key period and detailed illustrations for each new style, How to Read a Suit is an authoritative visual guide to the under-explored area of men's fashion across four centuries.
Each entry includes annotated color images of historical garments, outlining important features and highlighting how styles have developed over time, whether in shape, fabric choice, trimming, or undergarments. Readers will learn how garments were constructed and where their inspiration stemmed from at key points in history – as well as how menswear has varied in type, cut, detailing and popularity according to the occasion and the class, age and social status of the wearer.
This lavishly illustrated book is the ideal tool for anyone who has ever wanted to know their Chesterfield from their Ulster coat. Equipping the reader with all the information they need to 'read' menswear, this is the ultimate guide for students, researchers, and anyone interested in historical fashion.
Book Feature - How to Read a Suit by Lydia Edwards
