Thank you to NetGalley for a free advanced copy of this book in exchange for a honest review. This book will be a great coffee table and perfect for gift giving for those who love feminism, politics, and fashion. It shows the power of fashion and how it can communicate messages and agendas. Fashion is so much more than what we wear and it's apparent the author feels the exact same way! The illustrations are nicely done and I'm sure it's even better in a hard copy! 4/5 stars.

I adored this book. It brings about how controversial yet iconic fashion can be. It is more a surface level discussion which I wish it went more in-depth.

really cute illustrations paired with iconic fashion moments from even more iconic and incredible women from throught time. I really appreciated this deep dive into these moments and fashion statements.

A fun and short book about the history of fashion. I enjoyed the wide spectrum of clothing and time periods.

Nevertheless, She Wore It by Ann Shen takes a look at 50 of the biggest fashion moments and staples in history. This book does an excellent job of showing how fashion plays such a pivotal role in history. This book is also so empowering to all female out there and highlights women of all shapes, orientation, styles, sizes, and colors. This book discusses fashion items such as the Gaulle adorned by Marie-Antoinette to the plunging green Versace dress worn by Jennifer Lopez at the 42nd Grammy Awards.

The illustrations done by Ann Shen are so whimsical and a great take on the real life fashion staples. I highly recommend this book to all the fashion and history lovers out there!

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

As a girl who loves fashion, and has spent enough on magazines in her lifetime to have been able to afford a Channel suit, PLUS accessories, I knew I had to read this book. This book briefly touches on some of fashions iconic trends, moments in fashion history, and fashion events that changed the way we as women dress today.

From mini skirts, to pants, bloomers to short hair, there is history in here that perhaps a lot of us don’t know. Besides trying to break free from the patriarchal chains that bound us, there are also social and cultural histories here, like the durag, the pachuca, and the cheongsam to name a few. What’s the meaning behind red lipstick? Where did Coco Channel come up with her design for tweed? Did you know pants weren’t allowed on the floor of Congress until 1993???

There are also some style icons and how they changed the way we dress, Katherine Hepburn and pants, Audrey Hepburn and short hair, Michelle Obama and sleeveless shirts and dresses....the list goes on. The author also points out women who have protested by what they were wearing, like Lady Gaga and her famous meat dress, Serena Williams on the tennis court, and the Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad and her hijab to name a few.

We often think we are dressing for ourselves, but as the author points out, as long as our bodies are governed by others, the way we dress is a political statement, and women have used the opportunity for generations to make statements with their fashion.

The articles are accompanied by drawings of the fashions, and this is probably the one thing I would like to see different. I would have liked to have seen photos of the fashion in action so to speak. The suffragettes marching, the flappers on the dance floor, Josephine Baker in her Banana Skirt, RBG in her decent collar!

This would be a great book for anyone interested in fashion. I would also recommend this for teenaged girls finding their fashion sense...show them their history and how choosing that shade of lipstick or that length of skirt came from something.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publishers and the author for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book is as pretty as it is informative! I loved the illustration style which is bright and colorful and simple, but not generic or Instagram-baiting.
And I genuinely learned some interesting things about fashion history that I hadn't known; both categorically about historic/cultural pieces and about specific pop-culture inundated outfits. Shen provides context for historically zeitgeist-y outfits that really makes them much more interesting than I had anticipated!

My thanks to the author, publisher and Netgalley for the arc to review.

I am not someone very fashionable. It was so interesting to read about how fashion has impacted different areas of history and where it has impacted and who. Such a quick and beautifully illustrated read. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This was a delightful book, and it's a great companion to Ann Shen's previous book "Bad Girls Throughout History". I loved learning about how fashion has been used as feminist statements as well as a forms of expression. It's the perfect length for an afternoon read when you want to learn about feminist history but don't have the attention span for a heavy book (perfect for the pandemic world that we are now living in). Fashion is a big part of a lot of people's lives. It was interesting to learn how fashion has been used to help and better the lives of women while also making them look and feel wonderful.

If you love fashion, this book is for you. If you're a feminist, this book is for you. If you love history, this book is for you. Quick summation - this book is for you!

"Nevertheless She Wore It: 50 Iconic Fashion Moments" starts off by explaining "Clothes can speak louder than words. This book details many fashion moments that became fashion statements." Through gorgeous illustrations and detailed essays, Shen walks the reader through everything from hairstyles (the Afro and the Bob) and outfits (the Annie Hall and the Pachuca) to accessories (the Black Beret and the Dissent Collar ) and other components of women's looks (the Breast Pump and the Unibrow), showing how each one expressed a message and defined the wearer at that time. Some entries are celebrity-based (the Meat Dress) while others are more universal (the Jeans) but they all have one thing in common - they changed the way women who wore them were viewed by the world.

Shen explains that "Whether we choose to stand out or stand together, caring about fashion is a way of reclaiming our power." Here's to strong women and the statements they make with the outfits they wear!

Wow wow wow. I am not the most "hip" on fashion but I do love some good pop-culture history. This book does a great job diving into the societal importance and impact of these styles and women who wore them. It was fascinating to see the statement behind many of these looks. On top of the great writing and well-researched content, the artwork was beautiful! - I wouldn't be mad to have a few of them as prints in my home.

This is a powerful book full of empowerment and feminism!

I'm not a big fan of fashion-- I love to read about the societal changes a piece of clothing brought into the game, or how the women from X country made X clothes theirs during certain time, though I'm not a huge fashionista. But this book is perfect for both fashionistas and behind-the-scenes readers of fashion-- even better if you're both!

We read and see (because it has beautiful drawings of every piece of clothing or looks that you read in the book) a lot of fashion, in the every sense of the word. You read about how a haircut changed the way black women saw themselves and their own no-white-washed beauty in the society, how wearing anything remotely "masculine" made men anxious and angry, and how Marsha P. Johnson made the flower crown her trademark and the meaning behind it.

I loved how the dates are mixed so we don't have a boring timeline, but at the same time it seemed kind of messy in a couple of parts, where the author mentioned a piece of clothing before she talked about it. For example, she's talking about shorts and she says something like "after the success of the miniskirts..." (don't quote me on that), and the miniskirts don't come until 20 pages after that. The same thing happened to me when reading about the pantsuits and the tuxedos.

But yeah, that's a little detail that don't really matter in the bigger picture. I loved to not only read about the clothes per se (the jeans, the "manly" clothes, the durag) but also about historical events, like Kiran Gandhi's 2015 marathon and her period, how the adelitas made the rebozos their trademark and the pink pussyhats regarding Tr*mp's misogynistic and horrible words.

Again, I think it's a great book both for fashionistas and every person that wants to know more about fashion in an historical and societal way.

Wow. Between the beautiful illustrations and the quick history of fashion statements throughout the years, this book was amazing. Perfect for a coffee table or your most fashionable of friends. I learned quite a bit about fashion statements and the amazing women and reasons behind them. My favorite will always be Princess Diana’s Revenge Dress.

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A very interesting but brief look at different moments in fashion history and how they impacted the women who wore them and were inspired by them. The illustrations are very pretty and help to illuminate the descriptions. I just wish there was more to the descriptions.

The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This is a creative and unique take on fashion and the women who helped define eras. While women continue to face a multitude of uphill challenges for political, economic, and social equality, this book does a phenomenal job at showcasing the fashion statements that have advanced cultural revolutions, freedoms, and women’s empowerment. While the read itself was quick with well researched chapters, it was equally informative, empowering, and engaging with a scattering of wonderful illustrations throughout. It’s a perfect coffee table book for fashion lovers and history buffs alike.

I absolutely could not have loved it more. From the art to the writing— all of it was AMAZING. I definitely recommend it and will be buying for all my strong willed femme friends regardless of their Fashion style.

A wonderful read a time capsule of fashion from the little black dress onto the bikini.to Hillary’s iconic pantsuit,Beautifully illustrated a charming wonderful read.#netgalley#chroniclebooks

Inspired. I never thought I’d find a book about fashion interesting and fun, inspiring. We are more than the clothes that we wear, and the clothes we wear sometimes mean so much more. This book is so much more than it appears to be. Part beautiful clothing, part history and a whole lot of power.

This is an interesting take on not only the history of fashion, but <strong>why</strong> fashion has meaning.

While I was aware at how important Bloomers were to liberating women, there are 49 other points in history that I was not so familiar with. For example, I didn't know that Mary Tyler Moore's wearing of capri pants on the Dick Van Dyke show, was a statement about how women really dressed. That they didn't go around in high heels and pearls to do the laundry.

But there are others that surprise me, such as the wearing of a Cape on the red carpet amongst the LGBTQ crowd. Or the Fire Coat that Nancy Pelosi wore after meeting with President Trump at the white house. Or Kiran Gandhi running a marathon while she had her period, and letting it go all over her running pants, because there was nothing to be ashamed of.

Hard to believe that wearing pants or jeans was and still is in some cases, a form of protest.

And there is also the Pink Pussyhat used in protest of the 45 president's election.

There are subtle forms of protest included, such as the wearing of nude lipstick by women in North Korea, or bolder forms, such as the Revenge dress that Diane, Princess of Wales wore out after Prince Charles admitted to adultery.

A well composed book, and good look at recent and 150 year old fashion statements.



Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.