Gloves: An Intimate History Green Anne
Gloves: An Intimate History Green Anne A captivating history of gloves both real and mythical, practical and high fashion.This beautifully illustrated history of gloves draws on examples from across…
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Gloves: An Intimate History Green Anne
A captivating history of gloves both real and mythical, practical and high fashion.This beautifully illustrated history of gloves draws on examples from across the world to explore their cultural significance. So, too, is the remarkable diversity of their--often contradictory--cultural associations. From hand-knitted mittens to exquisitely embroidered confections, and from the three-fingered gloves of medieval shepherds to Bluetooth-enabled examples that function like a mobile phone, gloves' extraordinary variety is a tribute to human ingenuity.
In this book, Anne Green discusses gloves both as material objects with their own fascinating history and as fictional creations in folktales, literature, films, etiquette manuals, paintings, and advertisements. They have been linked to honor, identity, and status, but also to decadence and deceit. Looking to the runway, Green even
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