"Picture Post magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which ... captured a panorama of wartime events and the ordinary lives affected. This book is the first to examine this ... primary source as a cultural record of women's dress history. Reading the magazine's visual narratives from 1938 to 1945, it weaves together the ways in which design, style, and fashion were affected by, and responded to, the state of being at war--and the new gender roles it created for women. From the working class of ...
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"Picture Post magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism, which ... captured a panorama of wartime events and the ordinary lives affected. This book is the first to examine this ... primary source as a cultural record of women's dress history. Reading the magazine's visual narratives from 1938 to 1945, it weaves together the ways in which design, style, and fashion were affected by, and responded to, the state of being at war--and the new gender roles it created for women. From the working class of Whitechapel to the beach sets of the Bahamas, and from well-heeled Mayfair to middle-class New York, [this book] takes a wide-angled lens to the fashions and lifestyles of the women featured in Picture Post"--Publisher marketing.
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