Nonfiction
The Language Of Clothes
by Alison Lurie
Random House, New York, 1981
- ISBN-10: 0394513029
- ISBN-13: 9780394513027
“There's a certain relentlessness about a book that tries to explain everything from the meaning of the color blue... to the semiotics of dotted bow ties... So, though Miss Lurie writes clearly and wittily, The Language of Clothes is a book to be consumed with intermittent bites.”