Vogue history of 20th century fashion

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Vogue history of 20th century fashion

Jane Mulvagh ; with a foreword by Valerie D. Mendes

Viking, 1988

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Vogue history of twentieth century fashion

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Includes index

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This is an illustrated book offering a journey through the wardrobes of the twentieth-century's best dressed women. Fashion is approached season by season describing with detail the evolution of style, illustrating how fashion can act as a barometer of social change. Why did Edwardian women change six times a day? Why did flappers mimic adolescent boys? How did The Great Depression affect hemlines? Why did women retreat back into corsets after the war? Were London's punks using dress as a language of rebellion? The author contends that answers to these questions contribute to historians understanding of a period.

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