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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Wordrobe is a reconciliation of textile and text. Textile and text are intrinsically and semantically related; both words derive from texere and text. Even today we use the locu- tion weaving or spinning a tale to describe a powerful narrative. Apparel was not raised to grammar and rhetoric by Roland Barthes but it has always been con- nected with and been an incorporating principle for lan- guage constituting a knowledge of and inscription on the body. Fashion is not the mute unversed art that some have imagined. On the contrary like any other visual art fashion is literate and intelligent capable of conveying letters and linguistic form. In The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne’s identifying rune is allegorical one among the many emblems and tokens that fashion carries. The July 1936 issue of Harper’s Bazaar refers to “Schiaparelli’s cel- lophane belt [which can be ordered] with your name and telephone number written on it.” Such an example is a sure sign of personal identity. (LL)