Price: £300
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1936
Stock Number: 70722
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When Men Wore Muffs.
The Story of Men's Clothes.
Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 23 plates of historical men's fashion, pp. viii, 184, crown 8vo, original mid-blue cloth with a pale blue band stamped around the head, lettering in dark blue to backstrip and pale blue to upper board, top edge blue, slip advertising the publisher's 'Everyman's Library' laid in at rear, the dustjacket in excellent shape with some very shallow chipping to top corners and a couple of short closed tears to front panel, very goodPublication Details: J.M. Dent, 1936
Notes: Scarce. The author, Sir Henry Philip Price, was a Yorkshire tailor, who pioneered affordable suits: in prescribing the modern wardrobe, he is anxious to cater for 'the normal man, of normal means, in a normal job', and stresses the value of trusting one's tailor. An attractively designed history of male attire, beginning in ancient times but gathering in detail through the ages.
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