Women & Fashion: A New Look by Evans, Caroline and Thornton, Minna - 1989

Quartet Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Acknowledgements, foreword by authors, bibliography and index. The text is illustrated with copious black and white photographs. Pale silver coloured and pages. Bright hot pink coloured boards with metallic light blue coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper with pink and blue coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photographs of authors to the rear fold over panel. In this book the authors focus "... on the perplexing relationship between women, fashion and femininity. It brings together fashion and semiotics, psychoanalysis and style, interweaving the vocabulary of fashion literature in that of cultural studies and feminist theory." – from front fold over panel blurb.  Rubbing and fading of the book edges. Light age toning of the text block edges with faint foxing to the top textblock edge. Some foxing to the end pages and to the first few and last few pages of the book. There is a pale yellow coloured edge to the pages. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edge and panels. Sunning to the dustwrapper with some faint foxing to the top edges of the fold over panels and foxing to the verso edges.  Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [10] XI - XV, [1], 184 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Women & Feminism; Fashion, Fabrics & Style. ISBN: 0704326914. ISBN/EAN: 9780704326910. Inventory No: 0130426. . 9780704326910