I wish it were possible to give things 4 and a half stars. This book is amazing, at least for the first 80%. I started taking notes and then eventually realized that I was basically just transcribing the whole book, so excited was I about everything to do with spacesuits and cold war fashion. But in the last fifteen pages there's a not-totally-justified jump towards more conceptual, architectural pieces that was a lot more academic and a lot less fun. Still, totally worth reading.

Lately I've been looking back to my younger days a lot. This book discusses the influence of Cold War technology and paranoia on dress and lifestyle. The focus is the late 50s thru early 70s and it was fun reliving a lot of what happened in my childhood thru early adulthood. Made me recall the 'house of the future' at the '64 NY World's Fair, the explosion of synthetics, paper dresses (I still have one!), Emma Peel's cat suits. The future didn't turn out much like it was envisioned but this More...