Dressed for War: Uniform, Civilian Clothing and Trappings, 1914 to 1918

by Nina Edwards

Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her forearm made from copper fuse wire from the Somme. What people wear matters. Copiously illustrated, this book is the story of what people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front through the seismic years of World War I. Nina Edwards, reveals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780767072
• ISBN13: 9781780767079
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"