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Menswear

Vintage People on Photo Postcards

Tom Phillips author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bodleian Library

Published:3rd Oct '12

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Menswear cover

This series celebrates the Bodleian Library’s acquisition of Tom Phillips’s archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, ‘ordinary’ people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips’s signature work, A Humument.

With an illuminating foreword by Eric Musgrave, 'Menswear' presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to c. 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time. The rich variety of accessories on display includes ties, gloves, pocket squares, walking sticks, canes, boutonnières and spats.

‘The perfect gift for the sartorially discerning man.’ -- Susannah Frankel * The Independent *

ISBN: 9781851243785

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 448g

112 pages