ISBN:
9781780767079
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 218 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
391.009041
Keywords:
Clothing and dress History 20th century
;
Fashion History 20th century
;
Uniforms History 20th century
;
World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects
;
World War, 1914-1918 Clothing and dress
;
Clothing and dress / History / 20th century Fashion / History / 20th century
;
Uniforms / History / 20th century
;
World War, 1914-1918 / Social aspects
;
World War, 1914-1918 / Clothing and dress
;
Fashion
;
Social aspects
;
Uniforms / History
;
Erster Weltkrieg
;
Kleidung
;
Uniform
;
Geschichte 1914-1918
Abstract:
Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her forearm made from copper fuse wire from the Somme. What people wear matters. Copiously illustrated, this book is the story 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, a particular preference for a type of razor blade or 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 --
Description / Table of Contents:
The preludeUniform, chivalry and doing one's bit -- Men in civvies; Women in uniform -- The fabric and furbelows -- Attitudes to the body -- Entertaining costume -- Manufacture and the home -- Death, marriage and identity -- O brave new world -- Conclusion.
