![]() Dyhouse has whipped the stopper from a vintage bottle of Evening in Paris and conjured a vanished world – cheap, a little tarty, but impossible to forget.’ Amanda Vickery, author of Behind Closed Doors ‘In Glamour: Women, History, Feminism, Carol Dyhouse has written a study of the conception of glamour in the twentieth century that is sprightly, provocative, and penetrating. ![]() Glamour was a cynical business, but also a shriek of camp defiance. She shows how a parade in the trappings of glamour expressed aspiration and assertion at odds with mousy, unobtrusive conformity. ‘In her relish for brassy blondes, gutsy flamboyance and tinsel vulgarity, Dyhouse writes like a woman who knows her way around the lipstick counter and the flea market. ![]()
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