Dressing for Austerity : Aspiration, Leisure and Fashion in Post-war Britain

Name: Dressing for Austerity
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781780766287
Price: 24800 KES
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ISBN: 9781780766287

by Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry

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Format Hardback

Book Series Dress Cultures

ISBN-10 1780766289

ISBN-13 9781780766287

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint I.B. Tauris

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 26th, 2017

Print length 224 Pages

Weight 412 grams

Dimensions 21.90 x 13.50 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: United Kingdom, Great Britain Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 c 1950 to c 1959 Fashion and textile design History of fashion Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 Social & cultural history Cultural studies: dress and society Fashion & society History Social and cultural history

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Fashioning a new Jerusalem in Austerity Britain

A new look for Austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification ''Austerity Britain'' in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour government''s philosophy of ''Austerity by design'' in a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and consumer agency. The book examines the immediate post-war period - its politics, its fashions and its people - in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.

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