Shoes
The Meaning of Style
$29.99
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2019
Summary
We all make choices every day about which shoes to wear, but why do we choose the shoes we do? Organised around four main types — boots, sneakers, high heels and sandals — Shoes: The Meaning of Style explores the history of shoes and how different types of footwear have come to mean different things about the people who wear them.
Along the way Elizabeth Semmelhack reveals the anecdotes and scandals, successes and failures, dislikes and obsessions of the makers, wearers and ob…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781789140804 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1789140803 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Semmelhack |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
| Imprint: | Reaktion Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 948g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 163mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Elizabeth Semmelhack’s work sheds a new and fascinating light on footwear, looking at its social significance and how it has changed over the years. It is an absolute must for those interested in the subject. - Manolo Blahnik
This book shows us all the fashion, art, and design that allowed shoes to become a powerful cultural phenomenon. From the feet to the street to the commercial mountain peaks! And the chapter on sneakers represents how sneakers became not just a fact of life … but a way of life. - Darryl DMC McDaniels
strikes a careful balance between using language that is accessible in its clarity while also appealing to academic readers interested in the relation between material objects and socio-cultural identity … beautiful color illustrations of shoes both old and new. My review copy of the book looks as good and feels as lush as some of the shoes contained therein … Semmelhack’s book is a pleasure to read and relies on a rich diversity of literary, visual, and material sources. It nicely ties types of footwear to the historical contexts in which they emerge and become meaningful … Semmelhack’s ambition to transgress traditional gender boundaries is highly admirable too. - Journal of Fashion Theory
Elizabeth Semmelhack
Elizabeth Semmelhack is Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto. She is the author of Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture (2015) and Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe (2008).
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