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Fashion and Modernity

By Elizabeth Wilson

Series: Foundations of Fashion Studies

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When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as ‘the best I have read on the subject, bar none.’ From haute couture to haberdashery, and ‘deviant’ dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and... Read More

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While tracing the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity, Elizabeth Wilson covers topics including fashion and city life, feminism and fashion, and oppositional dress.

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When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as ‘the best I have read on the subject, bar none.’

From haute couture to haberdashery, and ‘deviant’ dress to Dior, Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. From the ‘dress reform’ movement to certain strands of feminism, Wilson delights in the power of fashion to mark out identity - or subvert it.

Explore topics including fashion and city life, feminism and fashion, and oppositional dress in this authoritative scholarly text on fashion’s pivotal role in modern society.

Series: Foundations of Fashion Studies

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350399747

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 June 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Illustration: 17 bw

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 724g

Pages: 314

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About the Author

Elizabeth Wilson's writing career began in the ‘underground’ magazines of the early 1970s, (Frendz, Red Rag, Spare Rib, Come Together) before she became an academic. She's written for the Guardian and her non-fiction books include The Sphinx in the City (1992) (shortlisted for the Manchester Odd Fellows Prize), Bohemians (2000) and Love Game (2014) (long listed for the William Hill sportswriting prize), as well as six crime novels, including War Damage (2009) and The Girl in Berlin (2012) (long-listed for the Golden Dagger Award).