Reviews for Dogs-a-Porter

The average rating for Dogs-a-Porter based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-07-04 00:00:00 Jamie Parkes This short volume is from the V&A Museum, discussing the trends in fashion for bags and purses, with a bit of an insight into pockets as well. In many ways it's a very feminine story, since men retained pockets in clothing and haven't been such targets of fashion for much of the time. It's a very Western European history of bags, but nonetheless, it's interesting to see how they developed and what was considered important or essential in a bag through time. The text is descriptive and refers to items from the V&A collection to illustrate their points, photographed beautifully and carefully labelled to help you match up the two. I'll admit, some of these bags are just weird to me, which is an entertainment factor all its own -- mostly I mean the newer fashionable ones, like the one which looks like a bag of Walkers crisps. Why?! Fashion. Apparently.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-01-20 00:00:00 Rosalie Burdett What a joy to read. A history of the humble bag, dating from the 14th Century to present day. I must admit I now look at bags differently now. A excellent book to give the fashion / historical costume fan an overview of the bag.