Screen LibraryMade for walking : a modest history of the fashion boot /
Social meets fashion history in the tantalizing story of the boot from the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition to online shopping and fashion blogs. Weaving together such unlikely elements as Glam Rock, the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, and the Iran-Contra scandal, it shows how the modern fashion boot play...
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Schiffer Fashion Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Atglen, PA : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Social meets fashion history in the tantalizing story of the boot from the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition to online shopping and fashion blogs. Weaving together such unlikely elements as Glam Rock, the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, and the Iran-Contra scandal, it shows how the modern fashion boot plays with our ideas of gender, straddling the line between practical and stylish, between fashion and fetish. Peake, author of the popular Made for Walking blog, includes thought-provoking photos and graphs that look deeply into what boots do, and what we make them do. In the words of renowned design |
| Carrier Form: | 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page [187]) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780764354991 (paperback) : 076435499X (paperback) |
| Index Number: | GT2130 |
| CLC: | TS943.722-09 |
| Call Number: | TS943.722-09/P357 |