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1940s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook
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This book is ideal for fashion enthusiasts, historians, and anyone interested in 20th-century culture and design. Its rich visual content and detailed commentary make it a valuable resource for students and professionals in fashion and arts history.
This sourcebook is a season-by-season fashion evolution of the Forties, featuring original photos and illustrations. Includes analysis of the social, economic and cultural factors that influenced this period, and information about the major designers.
The essential handbook for all fashion historians, students and vintage enthusiasts of the 1940s.
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With over 500 images of daywear, outerwear, evening wear and accessories, 1940s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook is a sweeping visual history of the golden age of fashion.
Was there ever a decade of more contrasts than the 1940s? The Second World War saw the rise of thrifty fashions, make-do-and-mend, practical styles and workwear. By the end of the decade, high glamour, Dior's New Look and luxurious cuts and fabrics had taken hold. In this encyclopaedic and beautiful book, fashion and design historians Emmanuelle Dirix and Charlotte Fiell explain how the upheaval of the decade rewrote fashion history.
Covering every aspect of female fashions from the decade—from lace evening gowns, tailored jackets and furs to figure-sculpting undergarments, satin negligees and scandalous bikinis, as well as military uniform—hundreds of images show this age of wartime austerity and post-war glamour in all its detail.
Contents include: Utility fashion, Veronica Lake, Joan Bennett, Dior, Lucien Lelong, Balmain, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Patou, Elsa Schiaparelli, Jaeger, uniform and workwear (Land Girls, welders, Women's Army Corps, Junior Air Corps, factory workers), lipstick, jewellery, stockings, Molyneux, Hattie Carnegie, Adrian, suiting, Norman Hartnell and more.
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ISBN: 9781787398917
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 14 October 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Welbeck
Illustration: 600 photos and illus
Contributors:
- Introduction by Emmanuelle Dirix
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 48.0mm
Width: 192.0mm
Height: 240.0mm
Weight: 1600g
Pages: 512
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Charlotte Fiell is a leading design historian who has written numerous bestselling books on all aspects of design. She studied at the British Institute in Florence, Camberwell College of Arts in London, and later trained at Sotheby's Institute, also in London.
Emmanuelle Dirix is a highly regarded fashion historian and curator. She has lectured at Antwerp Fashion Academy, the Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London and the University of Manchester. Recent projects include the exhibition and book Unravel: Knitwear in Fashion, 1920s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook and 1930s Fashion: the Definitive Sourcebook.Also by Charlotte Fiell
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