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  Are Clothes Modern? Treatise on Contemporary Apparel 1st Ed Rudofsky 1947
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Make/Author/Artist: Bernard Rudofsky
Edition/ Material: 1947 1st Edition
Details: Hard Cover

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Product Code: CLTHMD

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Table of Contents:
  • Are clothes modern?
  • Topography of modesty
  • The unfashionable human body
  • Does the pipe fit the face?
  • Clothes in our time.
  • Cut and dry goods
  • Sartoriasis or the enjoyment of discomfort
  • Dress Reform and reform dress
  • The poor man's esthetics
  • Invocation of democracy
  • Text references
This book is a complete departure from the conventional notion that apparel is but one of the eternally puzzling phenomena of life; there it is created by forces unfathomably obscure and beyond our control; and that dress is merely distilled from the remnants of other epochs - a belief which is so dear to museum directors and fashion writers.

Rejecting these ideas, the author induces the reader to think for himself rather than to swallow information. He demonstrates that our present day dress is the perfect expression of our civilization; and less flattering evidence was seldom presented.

Mr. Rudofsky reminds us that we smugly accept the stupidity of our clothes because we shy away from an insight into the problems of human work, leisure and happiness. The author mercilessly assails the superstitions and conventions by which we are bound and clarifies the principles which should govern clothing in a modern age.

Obviously, Are Clothes Modern? is no treatise on historic costume, on pattern making or merchandising. Though it digresses necessarily into historical and psychological matter, it is written for the adult reader whether he is professionally interested in present day clothing or merely intrigued by its social and ethical aspects.

CONDITION: Hard Cover, Yellow cloth boards some sun fade, DJ not included but DJ informative flaps pasted by previous owner inside first blank page. Previous owner address tag inside front cover, bumping to spine edges. 241 pages. Publisher: Paul Theobald, Chicago, First edition.

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