11. Suits: All Hail Beau Brummell!

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11. Suits: All Hail Beau Brummell!

1. Ian Kelly, Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Man of Style (New York: Free Press, 2006), 5.

2. Colleen Gau, “Conventional Work Dress and Casual Work Dress,” in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, vol. 3, The United States and Canada.

3. Bernhard Roetzel, Gentlemen (Cambridge: K?nemann, 2004), 92–93.

4. Richard Martin and Harold Koda, Jocks and Nerds: Men’s Style in the Twentieth Century (New York: Rizzoli, 1989), 113.

5. Ibid., 114–115.

6. Ibid., 115.

7. Nik Cohn, Today There Are No Gentlemen: The Changes in Englishmen’s Clothes Since the War (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971), 29–30.

8. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages, ed. Sarah Hermsen, vol. 5 (Detroit: UXL, 2004), 896.

9. James Laver, Taste and Fashion: From the French Revolution Until Today (London: G. G. Harrap, 1937), 20–21.

10. Colleen R. Callahan, “Children’s Clothing,” in A – Z of Fashion.

11. Women’s Wear Daily, “Moment 11: Women Embrace Menswear,” November 1, 2010, www.wwd.com/eye/fashion/moment-11-women-embrace-menswear-3344600?navSection=issues.

12. Melissa Leventon, What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008), 154–155.