Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity by Elizabeth Wilson

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Elizabeth Wilson

352 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted slow-paced
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When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as "the best I have read on the subject, bar none." From haute couture to haberdashery, "deviant" dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural h...

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