Dressing the part : television's most stylish shows
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York ; London : Harper, [2023]
Physical Description
223 pages : illustrations (color) ; 28 cm
Summary
"From longtime fashion director, consultant, media personality, and author, Hal Rubenstein, comes a lush, full color, illustrated guide to the most influential fashion on television from the 1950s to today, revealing the surprising ways our favorite shows have significantly reflected and often shaped the way we dress. No other medium has shaped our lives as thoroughly and consistently as television. Since its advent in the 1950s, television has served as a portal for discovering culture, initiating trends, and altering shared perceptions. Yet as Hal Rubenstein contends, television has done much more; its most dramatic, lasting, and effective influence can be found in our closets. Our most popular and lasting fashion trends and hallmarks of personal style haven't come from runways or magazines, but from what's on TV. For decades television has served as a personal stylist, showing us how others dress and defining what we should be wearing. ... Illustrated with over 175 gorgeous, full-color photographs, Dressing the Part is an extraordinary survey of our most beloved shows and their most enduring impact on style, shining a spotlight on the most innate human characteristics of all--how we imitate and then adapt what we enjoy seeing on others." --Amazon.com.
Contents
- Proper attire required: period dramas
- You're gonna make it after all: working women
- Home sweet home: dressing for domestic bliss
- Now, where's my black card?: glamour without apology
- Just us girls: the company of women
- That's what friends are for: just us kids
- Does this shoulder holster make me look fat?: fighting crime, looking sublime
- Talk may be chear, but it's worth a fortune: the unreal impact of reality shows.