1930's Fashion : The Definitive Sourcebook Paperback / softback
by Charlotte Fiell, Emmanuelle Dirix
Paperback / softback
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The 1930s was a turbulent decade for the world at large - a decade framed by two world-changing events, the economic crash of 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War ten years later.
This book reveals a world of revolutionary changes in fashion, and demonstrates the remarkable ingeniuty and inventiveness of designers and home-seamstresses who managed to thrive despite economic contraints and turmoil in Europe.
This is decade of the skirt suit, of sportswear-as-daywear and jersey fabrics.
But it was the Thirtes that also saw the rise of the glamorous Hollywood fashions, with silver-screen goddesses wearing slinky satin gowns that marked a new and overtly sensual direction within women's fashion design.
Many of the images in this fabulous collection have been selected from popular fashion publications of the day, mail-order catalogues, and Hollywood studio press shots, including material from Chic Parisien, Harper's Bazaar, Sears, La Femme Chic and top film studios Metro-Golwyn-Mayer, RKO and Paramount.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages, Over 500 photographs and illustrations
- Publisher:Welbeck Publishing Group
- Publication Date:08/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781783130153
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:512 pages, Over 500 photographs and illustrations
- Publisher:Welbeck Publishing Group
- Publication Date:08/09/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781783130153
