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Oct 05, 2014 to prepare, weve compiled a reading list of the best fashion fiction a mix of popular chicklit titles, some undiscovered gems, and a historical classic or two that will entice any book. The results range from the hilarious to the sublime, from the ultra chic to the totally uncool, but always intimate and original. Height of fashion is a beguiling, utterly original album of 231 enlarged snapshots of kids, teens, and adults showing off their easter outfits, their party finery, their funky fashion and designer suits, their shags and afros and punk dye jobs. Fashion and age is the first study to systematically explore the links between clothing and age, drawing on fashion theory and cultural gerontology to examine the changing ways in which age is imagined, experienced and understood in modern culture through the medium of dress.
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