Description
When Adorned in Dreams was once first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as ‘the most productive I’ve read at the subject, bar none.’ Elizabeth Wilson traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity. Wilson delights within the power of fashion to mark out identity or to subvert it and this up to date edition of her book follows contemporary developments to bring the tale of fashionable dress up to the moment, exploring the grunge look inspired by bands like Nirvana, the ‘boho chic’ of the mid 90’s, unfashionable-dressing and the meanings of dress from the veil to Beck’s pink-varnished toenails.