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Clothes Maketh the Man,
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This review is from: Way We Wore (Hardcover)
This is a very well-written and perceptive memoir-cum-social history of the role of clothes in shaping the culture of English working and lower middle class youth from the early 1960s to the end of the 1980s. Anyone who is, say, under 63, and fits the above social criteria, will find lots to smile about and feel nostalgic for in the very easy to turn pages of this book. But they will find stimulating analysis too, such as how this culture was a response to a 'dysfunctional' society and an attempt to overcome its limitations. Fortunately, the analysis is light touch and no more than suggestive. For this book is above all else a celebration of the sartorial creativity of lower class English youth and its uniquenessin what future historians will surely see as its golden period. As a moderately Modish man of 1963 vintage - the year I went up to University - I loved it. Jeff Gleisner, Leeds, England
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Like back in the day,
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Nice history of Robert Elms' life as a slave to fashion. Reminded me of some of my late 80s teen years in the S.F. Bay Area.
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Way We Wore by Robert Elms (Hardcover - April 15, 2005)
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