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Title: Lots of pretty pictures
Review: Admittedly, this book is a fun coffee-table read. I think that is all it aims to be.I found the scholarship hard to reference (I would have liked to have seen an impressive bibliography and had trouble sourcing both images and facts) but just thumbing through the book and looking at the clothing is sheer eye candy.Too much of contemporary dress is based on conformity, and seeing some designers having fun with textures, colours and history is a treat. The men wearing these designs would need not only sheer guts but a sense of fun, too.That said, this book belongs in the "for fun" category, but not on the scholar's bookshelf for the history of men's dress.
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