No comments about Rio Grande Blankets: Late Nineteenth-Century Textiles in Transition.

No comments about Japanese Textile Designs (International Design Library).

5 comments about 20 Years of Style: The World According to Paper.

1. I buy this magazine as soon as it comes out. It's fun to read, stylish and one of the last magazines that has a personality. It's like listening to your coolest uncle/aunt telling stories of the good ol' days, and then hearing about all the newest stuff too. Long LIVE Paper!



2. IF YOU THINK OLD DRAG QUEENS ARE COOL AND BUY CLOTHING MADE BY SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF RICH PARENTS WHO CAN'T DESIGN THEIR WAY OUT OF PAPER BAG, BUT HAVE DECIDED TO CALL THEMSELVES DESIGNERS ANYWAY AFTER THE FUN OF CALLING THEMSELVES ARTISTS, OR ACTORS, OR WRITERS HAS WORN OF THEN THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.
   
   THIS IS A MAGAZINE THAT BRAGS ABOUT HAVING "ANN MAGNUSON" ON THEIR COVERS MORE THAN ONCE...
   
   WHO IS "ANN MAGNUSON" YOU SAY?...MY POINT EXACTLY.
   
   WHAT A BUNCH OF SELF GRATIFYING WANNABEES.
   
   THANK
   GOD
   THE
   ERA
   OF
   THESE
   PURVEYORS
   OF
   POOP
   IS
   JUST
   ABOUT
   UP.
   
   I CAN'T THINK OF ANOTHER MAGAZINE THAT WILL BE LESS MISSED.
   
   BYE LOSERS.



3. I started reading paper about a year ago, and was so pumped when I heard a book was coming out. It truly couldnt be better! its a culture textbook and should be taught in schools no joke! this book is what VH1's I Love The 90's wanted to be but failed you love it trust me.-Nick



4. Paper magazine has always been a few steps ahead of the mainstream as the true arbiter of cutting edge style - and this gorgeous book is the best of the past 20 years! An amazing document of the most exciting moments in style culture - Bravo!



5. It's amazing how if only a few people keep telling themselves they are special for a long enough time, they may eventually get someone outside of themselves to believe it. I feel sorry for the poor soul who greenlighted this book and was assuredly fired soon after. These guys have some how managed to write about the same group of nobodys for twenty years and call themselves cutting edge. The makers of this magazine must thank their lucky stars for their parents giving them a trust fund to ride all the way to the retirement home. How old are the founders of this magazine now anyway? They must be very close to entering that big drag show in the sky. Save your money and go buy a book from a true cutting edge magazine like Vice, Tokion,Vibe or Interview. You will be happier.

No comments about Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England.

No comments about Market à la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in The Tatler and The Spectator.

2 comments about Material Man.

1. Though the photos in this book are worth a look, the writing is the worst kind of Gender Studies drivel available. For example: "The crossfire to which males are subjected these days - in the form of protests and questioning of gender identity and depiction of a general contemporary male perplexity and confusion - constitutes one of the most frequent and popular ploys of media communications and of fashion, which is, so to speak, the reified, objectified version of that communication transformed into tangible, salable products." Such writing is exclusive to fields of study that have very little to offer except puffy, bombastic prose... which is, so to speak, a way of saying that this emperor has no clothes.



2. As I student of gender, I was happy to find this book. From images of Batman to Armani, the authors pull together what it means to be manly in our era and the one before. Pictures are spread through out and fit perfectly. It's a fun book just to fip through. Once you start reading the articles are intelligent and well connected. There's nothing else like this on the market and is well worth the price.

No comments about Sewn Product Quality: A Management Perspective.

1 comments about The Herman Miller Collection: The 1955/1956 Catalog (Schiffer Book for Collectors and Designers).

1. This book may be the most important Herman Miller reference sorce out there. It out lines, with origanal catalog photos, what most collectors consider the most important design period ever.

No comments about Japanese Silk Designs in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series).

1 comments about Things a Woman Should Know About Shoes.

1. This is an 'easy read' and quite amuzing, with some sound advice for foot care. Recommend it to any gal (or boy) who understands the need to search out that mythical 'ideal' pair of shoes - you know...the ones that turn heads, could be put in an art gallery as a masterpiece of workmanship and that feel like you are walking on air! After 600 pairs, I still haven't found 'the one', but at least this book didn't make me feel like I was alone in the quest. A must read for all shoe lovers and looks good on the coffee table, too.