ISBN:
9780857735119
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (237 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
391.009041
Keywords:
Fashion -- History -- 19th century
;
Fashion -- History -- 20th century
;
Uniforms -- History -- 19th century
;
Uniforms -- History -- 20th century
;
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Abstract:
Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles, with overalls on over their trousers. What people wear matters. Well illustrated, this book tells the stories of what people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front through the seismic years of World War I. Nina Edwards reveals fresh aspects of the war through the prism of the smallest details of personal dress, of clothes, hair and accessories, both in uniform and civilian wear. She explores how, during a period of extraordinary upheaval and rapid change, wearing a certain perfume, say, or the just-so adjustment to the tilt of a hat offer insights into the individual experience of men, women and children during the course of World War I.
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Cover Inside -- Author Bio -- Endorsement -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Prelude -- 2 Uniform, Chivalry and Doing One'S Bit -- 3 Men in Civvies -- Women in Uniform -- 4 The Fabric And Furbelows -- 5 Attitudes to the Body -- 6 Entertaining Costume -- 7 Manufacture and the Home -- 8 Death, Marriage and Identity -- 9 O Brave New World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backcover Inside -- Backcover.
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