American Look: Fashion and the Image of Women in 1930's and 1940's New York

by Rebecca Arnold

Book Overview

From the end of the 1930s through the 1940s, the New York fashion industry came into its own. Sportswear, which had evolved from its sporting origins to include simple casual wear for town and country, travel and leisure, was at the centre of this shift. Sportswear provided busy career women, college girls and housewives with clothes that could be worn on all occasions.Drawing on a wonderful array of sources, from fashion magazines to department...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860647634
• ISBN13: 9781860647635
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"