Fashion: Women in World War One
Fashion: Women in World War One
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Author(s): Adlington, Lucy
ISBN No.: 9781841655369
Pages: 32
Year: 201404
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 11.08
Status: Out Of Print

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 football pitch?Fashion: From the First World War follows the revolution in women's lives and aspirations during the second decade of the 20th Century, as reflected in costume and appearance.We open 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.


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