Dress Code

By Veronique Hyland,

Book cover of Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

Book description

A New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022 * An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 * A Town & Country Must-Read Book of 2022 * A Fashionista Summer Read

"Smart, funny, and impressively thorough."-The Cut

In the spirit of works by Jia Tolentino and Anne Helen Peterson, a smart…

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1 author picked Dress Code as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

In Dress Code, fashion director Veronique Hyland makes the connection between clothing and our culture.

She argues that fashion is an integral part of all of our lives and explains the ways that it means so much more than the outfit hanging in our closets. The essays are great at helping the reader contextualize clothing in a world where social media and politics, inform the way we shop and style ourselves. 

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