Mountain Style | SKU: MS-1953-2000 

Description

The first book to celebrate the vintage style and visual heritage of the UK’s outdoor clothing brands.

The book features stunning new studio shots of vintage clothing, period adverts, brochures and photos, plus interviews with clothing designers, mountaineers and those at the birth of the brands. It brings together amazing images and deep research to tell a cultural history of the passion for the outdoors in the UK.

It features an actual down duvet that went to Everest in 1953, classic Ventile smocks, down suits, early Gore-Tex, ravers’ jackets and much more.

Also featuring an essay by gear veteran Chris Townsend.

300 x 230mm portrait

304pp

Full colour, with separate essay section

400+ full colour images and 40,000 words