Women in wartime : dress studies from 'Picture Post' 1938-1945 /
Picture Post' magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which vividly captured a panorama of wartime events and the ordinary lives affected. This book is the first to examine this fascinating primary source as a cultural record of women's dress history. Reading the magazi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Picture Post' magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which vividly captured a panorama of wartime events and the ordinary lives affected. This book is the first to examine this fascinating primary source as a cultural record of women's dress history. Reading the magazine's visual narratives from 1938 to 1945, it weaves together the ways in which design, style and fashion were affected by, and responded to, the state of being at war - and the new gender roles it created for women. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350000940 1350000949 9781350000957 1350000957 9781350000933 1350000930 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350000957 |