Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us
by Bergstein, Rachelle
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061969613
- ISBN 13
- 9780061969614
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2012. xiv, 284 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style tribes? Part social history, part fashion record, part pop-culture celebration, Women from the Ankle Down seeks to answer that question as it unfolds the story of shoes in the twentieth century. The tale begins in the rural village of Bonito, Italy, with a visionary young shoemaker named Salvatore Ferragamo and ends in New York City with a fictional socialite and trendsetter named Carrie Bradshaw. Along the way it stops in Hollywood, where Judy Garland first slipped on her ruby slippers; New Jersey, where Nancy Sinatra heard something special in a song about boots; and the streets of Manhattan, where a transit-worker strike propelled women to step into cutting-edge athletic shoes. Fashion aficionado Rachelle Bergstein shares the stories behind these historical moments, interweaving the design innovations and social changes that gave each one its lasting significance and appeal. Bergstein shows how the story of shoes is the story of women, told from the ankle down. Beginning with the well-heeled suffragettes in the 1910s, women have fought for greater freedom and mobility, a struggle that exploded in the 1960s with the women's liberation movement and culminated in the new millennium with our devotion to personal choice. Featuring interviews with designers, historians, and cultural experts, and a cast of real-life characters, from Marilyn Monroe to Jane Fonda, from Gwen Stefani to Manolo Blahnik, Women from the Ankle Down is a lively, compelling look at the evolution of modern women and the fashion that reflects-and has shaped-their changing lives. / Rachelle Bergstein graduated in 2003 from Vassar College, where she won awards for her academic writing. She works as an editorial consultant for a literary agency in New York City, and her writing has appeared in Fresh Yarn, The Awl, Slice magazine, and The Dirty Durty Diary. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, her cat, and her shoes. This is her first book." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124067
- Title
- Women from the Ankle Down: The Story of Shoes and How They Define Us
- Author
- Bergstein, Rachelle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0061969613
- ISBN 13
- 9780061969614
- Publisher
- Harper; HarperCollinsPublishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Design / Fashion & Costume;
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