Great War fashion : tales from the history wardrobe
Adlington, L. J. (Lucy J.), 1970-2013
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FASHION DESIGN. Great War Fashion opens the woman's wardrobe in the years before the outbreak of war to explore the real woman behind the stiff, mono-bosomed ideal of the Edwardian Society lady draped in gossamer gowns, and closes it on a new breed of women who have donned trousers and overalls to feed the nation's guns in munitions factories and who, clad in mourning, have loved and lost a whole generation of men. The journey through Great War Fashion is not just about the changing clothes and fashions of the war years, but much more than that - it is a journey into the lives of the women who lived under the shadow of war and were irrevocably changed by it. At times, laugh-out-loud funny and at others, bringing you to tears, Lucy Adlington paints a unique portrait of an inspiring generation of women, brought to life in rare and stunning images.
Main title:
Great War fashion : tales from the history wardrobe / Lucy Adlington.
Author:
Imprint:
Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2013.©2013.
Collation:
247 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles ; 27 cm.
Notes:
Facsimiles on endpapers.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780752493480 (hardback)
Dewey class:
391.20941
Language:
English
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BRN:
319066