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Fashion in the 1940s

by Jayne Shrimpton
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780747813538
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Shire Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Shire Publications
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 72
  • Original Price: GBP 8.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 159 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Criticism, Fashion & Accessories, and Europe / Great Britain / General

This book reveals the impact of wartime on British fashion, how a spirit of utility, make-do and mend unleashed a whole new creativity among Britain's women starved of high fashion by rationing. Many of these home dressmakers copied the high-end looks. Women doing war work created new street fashion looks. It also shows how world war shifted the centre of the international fashion from Paris to New York and established a casual American style for British women and men. Finally, we see the re-birth of Paris fashion in Dior's New Look and a new glamour.

Jayne Shrimpton is a professional dress historian and portrait specialist with an MA in the History of Dress from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She has many years' experience analysing historical images and is well known for her dress history and photograph books, magazine articles, lectures and photo dating events.

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