This book offers fascinating insights into the material and affective dimensions of the 1960s Model Girl. It is a richly illustrated, textured examination of this central sixties figure, drawing on a wide range of material resources to capture the appeal of the model as 'dream, profession and aspiration'.

Joanne Entwistle, King's College London, UK

This thoughtful examination provides a crucial genealogy of that era's Model Girl, a figure central to our understanding of the complex period that was the Sixties. McDowell's consideration of the model-subject and object, original and copy, material and abstract, ordinary and extraordinary, person and process-allows for a keen analysis of these “girls”' self/representational practices, smartly exposing the ambivalences and interstices of model/girl fashion narratives in all their iconic modes.

Nicole Stamant, Agnes Scott College, USA