Fashion Culture: Suitable: The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City

Image: Cover of Suitable courtesy of Oxford University Press. Two hundred and fifty years after the American Revolution, historian and costume designer Dr. Chloe Chapin traces the evolution of modern men’s suits to answer big questions about fashion. When men adopted plain, dark, uniform suits to symbolize rationality and modernity, they simultaneously cast “fashion” as […]