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    Worn: A People’s History of Clothing

    Jan 12, 2022 3 minutes
    By Sofi Thanhauser

    Allen Lane £20

    Now and then in the life of a book reviewer, a book comes along that makes you glad to be one.

    Glad because otherwise you would probably never find this book among the thousands published monthly, and no less glad for being able to tell a lot of people about it without becoming a public menace.

    Sofi Thanhauser’s falls plumb into this category, to the extent that I, your

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