Unsuitable

A History of Lesbian Fashion

AvEleanor Medhurst

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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The way we dress can show or hide who we are; make us fit in, make us stand out, or make our own community. Yet ‘lesbian fashion’ has been strangely overlooked. What secrets can it reveal about the lives and status of queer women through the ages?The lesbian past is slippery: often deliberately hidden, edited or left unrecorded. Unsuitable restores to history the dazzlingly varied clothes worn by women who love women, from top hats to violet tiaras. This story spans centuries and countries, from ‘Gentleman Jack’ in nineteenth-century Yorkshire and Queen Christina of seventeenth-century Sweden, to Paris modernism, genderqueer Berlin, butch/femme bar culture and gay rights activists—via drag kings, Vogue editors and the Harlem Renaissance.This book is a kaleidoscope of the margins and the mainstream, celebrating trans lesbian style, Black lesbian style, and gender nonconformity. You don’t have to be queer or fashionable to be enthralled by this hidden history. Unsuitable lights it up for the world to see, in all its finery.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-01
Mått:129 x 198 x 25 mm
Vikt:356 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:360
Förlag:C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
ISBN:9781805266051

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Eleanor Medhurst is a historian of queer fashion and culture and author of the blog Dressing Dykes. She has worked on Brighton Museum’s exhibitions Queer Looks and Queer the Pier, and is pursuing a PhD in lesbian craft history at the University of Brighton. This is her first book.

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‘Shines a much-needed spotlight on an entire group that’s too often been overshadowed, celebrating the ever-evolving style of the lesbian community.’

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List of Illustrations Introduction PART ONE: WE WERE ALWAYS HERE 1. Tunics and Violets: Sappho and Her Afterlives 2. Christina of Sweden, Girl King 3. Anne Lister: Diaries and Dress 4. Literary Lovers: 1910s Japan PART TWO: PARIS TO HARLEM: THE LESBIAN 1920s 5. Paris Lesbos: The Sapphic Capital 6. The Queer Modernism of British Vogue 7. The Complete Appearance of a Lady: Trans Lesbians in Weimar Berlin 8. In the Life: Lady Lovers of the Harlem Renaissance PART THREE: A BUTCH/FEMME INTERLUDE 9. Looking ‘Right’: The Mid-Century Lesbian Bar 10. A Note on Femmes PART FOUR: MIRACULOUS MASCULINITY 11. Breeches Roles and Female Husbands: Cross-Dressed Britain in the 1700s 12. Variety: Music Hall, Male Impersonation and a Turning Century 13. Gladys Bentley: A Sartorial History 14. Stormé DeLarverie and the Dawn of the Drag King PART FIVE: LESBIAN POLITICS, POLITICAL LESBIANS 15. The Lesbian Threat of the Suffragettes 16. Uniforms of the Second Wave: Lesbian Feminist Dress Codes 17. T-Shirts: The Billboards of the Body 18. The Fashion of Liberation Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Select Bibliography Index