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What shall I wear today? Who shall I be? Whether it's a pair of old jeans, a smart, job-clinching suit or the latest haute couture creation, we know that what we choose to wear each day is an important matter. Whether we are rebels, conservatives or trendsetters, our clothes say something about how we feel and the image we want to present to the world. They reflect our individuality, wealth and position in society. Shell suits, club ties, puffball skirts and cravats: clothes appal, enthral, amuse and confuse. In this fascinating book, John Harvey steals a look inside the modern-day wardrobe to reveal how, by being aware of the role clothes play in our lives, we can come to know and better understand who we are. As followers of fashion, are we innovators of the future or one of the herd? By wearing mass-produced clothes, do we become mass-produced people? Are clothes doing a different thing when they are worn by women than when worn by men? And what happens when we get it wrong? Drawing on literature, visual art, philosophy and history, Harvey explores these and many other issues to discover that the matter of clothes is not as straightforward as we may think. As well as being objects of beauty and affection, clothes, it seems, have their dark side, as symbols of status, as weapons of class war and as disguises for who we really are. An entertaining mix of personal opinion and enlightened reflection, the book explores the values that clothes have for us and how they help make us the men and women we are. For anyone who has ever wondered how they could have got it so wrong it is captivating reading.
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John Harvey is Reader in Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. His books include an acclaimed study of menswear in Western Europe, and he has published three novels.
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