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Classy Looks
Clothes
Crinoline Ladies
Dollybirds
Dress
Dress and Desire
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Feminism
Glamour
History
Make Up
Memory
Miuccia Prada
Perfume
Power Dressing
Scent
School Uniform
Product details
- ISBN 9781916846685
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 135 x 212mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Unicorn Publishing Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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What does it mean to obsess about clothes and appearances? For some of us, deciding what to wear can involve tension and torment as well as delight. What do we mean by ‘looking classy’ or ‘power dressing’? What are the connections – or contradictions – between dress and desire, glamour and feminism? Do our choices reflect or challenge social values and constraints in women’s lives?
Appearances is both memoir and cultural history. It considers attitudes to personal appearance through four generations of women in the author’s family, weaving memory through a wide-ranging exploration of fashion, femininity and feminism in the recent past.
Carol Dyhouse writes on the social history of women, education and popular culture. Her previous publications include Glamour: Women, History, Feminism (2011), Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women (2013), Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire (2017) and Love Lives, From Cinderella to Frozen (2021). Carol is emeritus professor of history at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
