100 Years of Menswear

Until recently men's fashion and style was considered secondary to women's. Indeed, Cally Blackman, the author of 100 Years of Menswear, suggests that, to a large extent, menswear of the twentieth century has been written out of the history of dress through being regarded as dull in comparison with the more obvious glamour of women's fashion. But Blackman's puts forward an almost provocative view that menswear has had a far greater influence on women's fashion over the last century than the other way round. Her proof of this statement is that women have universally adopted male garments, such as...