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Mary Lisa Gavenas

covered the menswear and textile industries for Fairchild Publications before becoming a senior editor at Glamour, In Style, and Mirabella magazines, and a columnist at ELLE. She holds a master's in Costume History from New York University, is a member of the Gotham Center for New York City History, and was recently named a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at CUNY Graduate Center. Gavenas has been cited as an expert source in media ranging from The New York Times to BBC-4.
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The Fairchild Encyclopedia of Menswear

The Fairchild Encyclopedia of Menswear

Mary Lisa Gavenas
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Men's makeovers are a staple of reality television, and male celebrities retain stables of stylists. Magazine publishers are busy beefing up their coverage of men's fashion and grooming. There is more interest over menswear then there's been in decades, yet there has been no comprehensive resource or reference until now. Witty and exhaustively researched, The Fairchild Encyclopedia of Menswear remedies that need for students, retailers, customers, journalists, would-be dandies, and anyone else who is interested in what men wear and why they wear it. View