Best Dressed: 200 Two Hundred Years of Fashion in Australia by Alexandra Joel

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Some edgewear and tanning of cover. Laminate is splitting from backing on the tip of the spine head. Previous owner has added name to inside cover. Binding is good and pages clean.

This is not an academic history of fashion trends in Australia. Instead Alexandra Joelhas related fashion's changing nature to the broad development of Australian society as a whole. Not just the events of the past, but what we have seen on the street, on the beach, in newspaper headlines, trendy boutiques and favourite magazines.

Although colonial and Victorian periods are included, the book's main focus in on the 20th Century.

Includes index and references.