To be fair, the book really isn't about fashion. Instead, Hyland, an Elle editor, uses fashion as a lens to reflect on important aspects of our culture - generational perspectives, gender politics, police militarization, classism, and the patriarchy, just to name a few. She does so in a series of clear and cogent essays, supporting her arguments with citations from Michel Foucault to Tina Fey, and peppering her analyses with both thoughtful insights into social issues and incredibly delightful turns of phrase about every other page. Hyland is no lightweight - fashion journalism may be her vocation but she could easily sit at the table with any public intellectual you could name.
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