Women in wartime : dress studies from 'Picture Post' stories,1938-1945 /
"Picture Post" was made famous by the range and quality of its photojournalism which vividly captured a panorama of wartime events and their effects on ordinary lives. Drawing on an absorbing range of photo-stories this book is the first to use this fascinating primary source as a cultural...
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing Picture post
- Beauty's blueprint
- Fashion stories from everyday life
- Picture post shows life on less
- Britain and the first fashions of war
- Practical living with Picture post
- Picture post reports on wartime clothing initiatives
- Making and looking after clothes
- A fashion for fitness
- Epilogue : Picture post reports on fashion news from France
- Conclusion
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements. Introducing "Picture Post"
- Beauty's blueprint
- Fashion stories from everyday life
- "Picture Post" shows life on less
- Britain and the first fashions of war
- Practical living with "Picture Post"
- "Picture Post" reports on wartime clothing initiatives
- Making and looking after clothes
- A fashion for fitness
- Epilogue: "Picture Post" reports on fashion news from France
- Conclusion. Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
- 1 Beauty's blueprint p. 25
- 2 Fashion stories from everyday life p. 41
- 3 Picture Post shows life on less p. 59
- 4 Britain and the first fashions of war p. 71
- 5 Practical living with Picture Post p. 89
- 6 Picture Post reports on wartime clothing initiatives p. 113
- 7 Making and looking after clothes p. 125
- 8 A fashion for fitness p. 137
- 9 Epilogue: Picture Post reports on fashion news from France p. 151