Consuming Mass Fashion in 1930s England: Design, Manufacture and Retailing for Young Working-Class Women

by Cheryl Roberts

Book Overview

This book details a significant and largely untold history of the demand for cheap, fashionable clothing for young working-class women. This is an interdisciplinary fashion and business history analysis that investigates the design, manufacture, retailing and consumption of fashion for and by young working-class women in 1930s Britain. It concentrates on new mass developments in the design and manufacture of lightweight day dresses styled for younger...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030946150
• ISBN13: 9783030946159
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"