Seeing Through Clothes

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Together with the specificity of the chosen topics, the book becomes a vivid representative of literature aimed at a narrow audience. Though the nomination earned her major accolades, her red carpet look also made headlines with its unique combination of cutouts and straps.

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For example, Hollander claims that people living in Greece during the Hellenistic period did not wear underwear, but she provides no evidence (and the lack of images of people wearing underwear does not necessarily indicate what was worn under chitons). The same goes for the "Sources for Illustrations" at the end of the book - artist, title, and location are specified, but the date of the work only rarely. Her smaller sub-chapters about various clothing forms (or lack thereof) will likely be useful for someone looking to focus on something more discrete.I picked this up because it was hailed in Bookforum as being a masterful study of clothes through time. I think it would have been better to divide this book into two or even three books because all the chapters (of this book), of which there are six, are very loosely connected. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. Hi, here on the forum guys advised a cool Dating site, be sure to register - you will not REGRET it https://bit. I picked this up thinking it would be an interesting study of the history of fashion as shown in art, demonstrating how the way the nude body is painted at different times suggests and implies the clothing and fashions in body type that were popular at that time.

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When I force myself to read past the banality and the unfair assumptions Hollander makes, I find she actually occasionally says something insightful when she's discussing individual works of art. e., the author goes around and around, as if with the purpose of not finishing (writing) the book longer. If anything, she probably smells less bad than your average woman on the street in 1868, because she's rinsing off under a waterfall.As interested as I am in both representational art and fashion, Hollander's book failed to keep me engaged. Rather, the book is aimed at students of relevant faculties and/or people who are seriously interested in fashion and art of past eras. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The actress turned heads at the 2016 Harper's Bazaar Icons party, wearing a naked dress designed by Julien Macdonald.