Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion by Eleanor Medhurst Groundswell Speaker 2024 Named a Best Book of

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Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion by Eleanor Medhurst Groundswell Speaker 2024 Named a Best Book ofThe 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.