Great War Fashion: Tales from the History Wardrobe

Great War Fashion: Tales from the History Wardrobe
Lucy Adlington
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Paperback
h263 x 194mm - 248pg
3 Mar 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9780750999359
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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? Great War Fashion 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. While suffragettes battle social and legal restrictions, fashion literally hobbles women with narrow skirts and thigh-length corsets.
Lucy Adlington is the founder of History Wardrobe, which gives costume-in-context presentations to more than 15,000 people across the UK every year. She works closely with English Heritage and National Trust and has a large collection of original outfits spanning 200 years of fashion history. She is also a children's author and has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780750999359
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The History Press
Publisher: The History Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 263mm
Width: 194mm
Pages: 248

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