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Twentieth-century American fashion /

Contributor(s): Series: Dress, body, culturePublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Berg, 2005.Description: 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1845200721
  • 9781845200725
  • 184520073X
  • 9781845200732
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Contents:
The Americanization of fashion / Linda Welters and Patricia A. Cunningham -- Fashion in the gilded age: a profile of Newport's King family / Rebecca J. Kelly -- Dress and culture in Greenwich Village / Deborah Saville -- The influence of American jazz on fashion / Susan L. Hannel -- The Americanization of fashion: sportswear -- The movies and the 1930s / Patricia Campbell Warner -- Promoting American designers, 1940-1944: building our own house / Sandra Stansbery Buckland -- The Onondaga Silk Company's 'American Artist Print Series' of 1947 / Amy Lund and Linda Welters -- The beat generation: subcultural style / Linda Welters -- Space age fashion / Suzanne Baldaia -- Dressing for success: the re-suiting of corporate America in the 1970s / Patricia A. Cunningham -- Television and fashion in the 1980s / Patricia A. Cunningham, Heather Mangine, and Andrew Reilly -- Flava in ya gear: transgressive politics and the influence of hip-hop on contemporary fashion / Robin M. Chandler and Nuri Chandler-Smith.
Review: "This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitating British and French fashion to developing their own sense of style. It examines such influences on dress as class, jazz and hip-hop, war, the space race, movies, television and sports. Further, the book shows how gender, psychology, advertising, public policy, shifting family values, the American design movement and expertise in mass production profoundly influenced an American style that has been exported across the globe."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Americanization of fashion / Linda Welters and Patricia A. Cunningham -- Fashion in the gilded age: a profile of Newport's King family / Rebecca J. Kelly -- Dress and culture in Greenwich Village / Deborah Saville -- The influence of American jazz on fashion / Susan L. Hannel -- The Americanization of fashion: sportswear -- The movies and the 1930s / Patricia Campbell Warner -- Promoting American designers, 1940-1944: building our own house / Sandra Stansbery Buckland -- The Onondaga Silk Company's 'American Artist Print Series' of 1947 / Amy Lund and Linda Welters -- The beat generation: subcultural style / Linda Welters -- Space age fashion / Suzanne Baldaia -- Dressing for success: the re-suiting of corporate America in the 1970s / Patricia A. Cunningham -- Television and fashion in the 1980s / Patricia A. Cunningham, Heather Mangine, and Andrew Reilly -- Flava in ya gear: transgressive politics and the influence of hip-hop on contemporary fashion / Robin M. Chandler and Nuri Chandler-Smith.

"This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitating British and French fashion to developing their own sense of style. It examines such influences on dress as class, jazz and hip-hop, war, the space race, movies, television and sports. Further, the book shows how gender, psychology, advertising, public policy, shifting family values, the American design movement and expertise in mass production profoundly influenced an American style that has been exported across the globe."--Jacket.

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