Dressing and Undressing
Anita Brookner, 15 April 1982
The Language of Clothes
by Alison Lurie.
Heinemann, 272 pp., £10, April 1982,0 434 43906 1 Show More
by Alison Lurie.
Heinemann, 272 pp., £10, April 1982,
The Thirties Family Knitting Book
edited by Jane Waller.
Duckworth, 95 pp., £5.95, September 1981,0 7156 1601 3 Show More
edited by Jane Waller.
Duckworth, 95 pp., £5.95, September 1981,
Chanel and Her World
by Edmonde Charles-Roux.
Weidenfeld, 354 pp., £25, October 1981,0 297 78024 7 Show More
by Edmonde Charles-Roux.
Weidenfeld, 354 pp., £25, October 1981,
Creative Dressing
by Kaori O’Connor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £4.95, September 1981,1 4004 6247 9 Show More
by Kaori O’Connor.
Penguin, 192 pp., £4.95, September 1981,
Doing it with style
by Quentin Crisp.
Eyre Methuen, 157 pp., £5.95, October 1981,0 413 47490 9 Show More
by Quentin Crisp.
Eyre Methuen, 157 pp., £5.95, October 1981,
“... Fashion, according to Baudelaire, is a moral affair. It is, more specifically, the obligation laid upon a woman to transform herself, outwardly and visibly, into a work of art, or, at the very least, into a work of artifice, thus acknowledging the distance that must be measured between her natural and unredeemed state and the peculiar idol she must become if she espouses the work of self-admonition and self-regulation, and therefore of disguise, constraint, impassivity ... ”
