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245 _aGreat War fashion
_b: tales from the history wardrobe
_c/ Lucy Adlington
300 _a247 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 27 cm
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-247).
505 _aOn the brink -- Fashion for the few -- Keeping up appearances -- Shopping for clothes -- Maid of all work -- War paint -- Crowning glory -- The fully fashionable figure -- Knitting by the Ton -- Making the best of things -- Monday is washing day -- Angels in Hell -- Mother's a Munitionette -- Furs and feathers -- Wedding belles -- In an interesting condition -- Widow's weeds -- As smart as the chaps -- Emergency fashion -- A league of their own -- Cross-dressing and undressing -- A land fit for heroines.
520 _a"We often talk of "stepping into someone else's shoes." Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed by Yantonnay of Paris, or heavy wooden clogs with metal cleats that spark on the cobbles of a factory yard? Will your shoes be heavy with mud from trudging along duckboards between the tents of a frontline hospital, or stuck with tufts of turf from a soccer pitch? This history follows the revolution in women's lives and aspirations during the second decade of the 20th century, as reflected in costume and appearance. The book opens the wardrobe in the years before the outbreak of war to explore the contrast between the stiff, mono-bosomed ideal of Edwardian womanhood and the gossamer gowns draped round her. It examines such contradictions as suffragettes battling social and legal restrictions while fashion literally hobbles women with narrow skirts and thigh-length corsets." --Publisher description.
650 0 _aClothing and dress
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650 0 _aClothing and dress Great Britain History 20th century
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650 0 _aFashion
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_xHistory
_y20th century
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650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 Social aspects Great Britain
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651 0 _aGreat Britain
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