Roots of Street Style

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Summary: Best coffee table book ever!
Review: This book never gets old and all your guests will love it! The illustrations are quite entertaining and detailed. All pictures have that anime look with tweeked facial features to resemble some of the world's most flamboyant trendsetters such as Adam Ant, Damon Albarn and Marlon Brando. The translations are quite silly and even point out that marijuana is a pound a week accessory for the fashionable Rasta man. If only the author would do a follow up book to chart recent trends. Book also includes "family trees" of fashion trends and corresponding music trends.

Rating:
Summary: Best coffee table book ever!
Review: This book never gets old and all your guests will love it! The illustrations are quite entertaining and detailed. All pictures have that anime look with tweeked facial features to resemble some of the world's most flamboyant trendsetters such as Adam Ant, Damon Albarn and Marlon Brando. The translations are quite silly and even point out that marijuana is a pound a week accessory for the fashionable Rasta man. If only the author would do a follow up book to chart recent trends. Book also includes "family trees" of fashion trends and corresponding music trends.

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Summary: Western Fashion Reviewed for Easterners
Review: This is an excellent book, chaulked full of wonderfully detailed colour plates. Surrounding the plates are many tid-bits and factoids concerning the period and dress. Periods covered extend from the 1700's Baroque period to the Grunge period of the mid 1990's. Between these examples you will find European peasant-wear [ooh so chic!], Traditional Skinhead duds [non-racist, working class brits], Mods [traditional and neo alike], Flygirls [just like those chicks from 'In Living Color'], and EVERYTHING in between. Many many styles here! If anything ill could be said about this book, it would be that it doesn't have a second edition. Zeshu Takamura did a splendid job here, although some translations come up a tad bit off-kilter. All-in-all, this book is wonderful just for the history that accompanies every tiny fad. A must for all of you punk/ska/thrash types that seem to think that you invented a way of dressing on your own.