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Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A striking and inventive social history of the role of clothing in the making of modern Americans.
While fashions of the rich and famous have been lushly, chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between 1890 and the outbreak of World War II, as ready-to-wear came into its own, the clothes of ordinary Americans claimed the nation's attention. Allied with civic virtue, fashion now played an increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Illustrations, photographs, and text describe the fashion trends of the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s, with information on styles, designers, manufacturing, materials, and other related topics.