Simon & Schuster Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History

Top read! I really appreciate how much time and research went into this. I ended up looking up the word "sartorial" pretty quickly because it is used a bunch. :) A very, very interesting read. I learned a lot that I didn't know, about menswear especially. I particularly appreciated the author's ability to put words to a lot of social subtleties regarding norms of clothing and dress that are difficult to verbalize or even realize consciously at times. This really helped me clarify some of my own thoughts about clothing and social expectations. I would love to see more books like this, since the nuances of clothing and people's responses to it is such a broad topic, and a more important one than most people realize it is, as the author so articulately and convincingly observes. Excellent read!!

I really enjoyed this book it talked about the power of clothing throughout history on a polical, economial and social level.

This feels like a collection of MA thesis (thesises? theses?) put together. Not in itself a bad thing but means quite a lot of repetition (albeit from different angles) of the various laws and implications. It was what I wanted and I found it very useful.

Llegó en el tiempo establecido, compré la versión en pasta blanda, la calidad de la impresión no es buena, las hojas se sienten de mala calidad y el lomo del libro se ve mal pegado.

I love the content of this book. Checked out twice from library and it is chock full of interesting observations. It is fascinating-- However, the paperback edition that was delivered to me had NONE of the 8 pages of colored image plates, which are heavily and amusingly referenced in the text. If you love the book-- but the Hardcover with the color plates. Returning and repurchasing -- Anyway-- a fabulous read, I just couldn't get enough of this.