Creator
ANTONIA FREMONT
Title
Deadly Vestments: A History of Inept Military Couture
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Macmillan
Date
1982
Subject
Mentioned by Margaret Atwood in The Robber Bride.
Description
Professor Fremont’s area of study is war. Her book concerns the role of clothing, especially badly designed clothing, in getting men killed on the battlefield. It can be anything from the red coats of the Redcoats to the trouser fly buttons of the common soldier. The time required to fumble the fly open in the heat of battle has done in more than a few blokes. It does not, she notes, take a sniper long to aim.