Adorned in Dreams

Elizabeth Wilson's writing career began in the ‘underground’ magazines of the early 1970s, (Frendz, Red Rag, Spare Rib, Come Together) before she became an academic. She's written for the Guardian and her non-fiction books include The Sphinx in the City (1992) (shortlisted for the Manchester Odd Fellows Prize), Bohemians (2000) and Love Game (2014) (long listed for the William Hill sportswriting prize), as well as six crime novels, including War Damage (2009) and The Girl in Berlin (2012) (long-listed for the Golden Dagger Award).

• Preface to the re-issue1: Introduction2: The History of Fashion3: Explaining it Away4: The Fashion Industry5: Fashion and Eroticism6: Gender and Identity7: Fashion and City Life8: Fashion and Popular Culture9: Oppositional Dress10: Utopian Dress and Dress Reform11: Feminism and Fashion12: Changing Times/Altered StatesAfterwordReferencesFurther readingBibliographyIndex

Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity is one of the best books ever published on the significance of fashion in society . . . as relevant today as when it was first published