Dressing the Past
Quentin Bell unveils deeper meanings from the ever-evolving history of fashion and fancy dress.
We do not see our neighbours in the street; we see their clothes. Even their hands and faces are trimmed, veiled, gloved or painted to a pattern. In the mind’s eye modern man is a tweeded biped; modern woman, albeit a more protean creature, is a skirt.
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