Dressing for Austerity : Aspiration, Leisure and Fashion in Post-War Britain PDF
by Dr Geraldine (Central St Martins, London, UK) Biddle-Perry
Part of the Dress Cultures series
Description
A new look for Austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification 'Austerity Britain' in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab.
Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration.
It traces how, set against the Labour government's philosophy of 'Austerity by design' in a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and consumer agency.
The book examines the immediate post-war period - its politics, its fashions and its people - in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:224 pages, 30 bw integrated
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/04/2017
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- ISBN:9781786731975
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:224 pages, 30 bw integrated
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/04/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786731975
