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Author Ugolini, Laura

Title Men and Menswear : Sartorial Consumption in Britain 1880-1939
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
Series The History of Retailing and Consumption
History of retailing and consumption.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Consuming Menswear -- 1 Identities, 1880-1939 -- 2 Non-conformity, 1880-1939 -- 3 Menswear and War, 1914-1918 -- 4 The Democratisation of Menswear? 1919-1939 -- Part II Selling Menswear -- 5 Tailoring and Manliness, 1880-1914 -- 6 Menswear Retailing and War, 1914-1920 -- 7 The Struggle for Survival, 1920-1939 -- Part III Buying Menswear -- 8 Shopping Decisions, 1880-1939 -- 9 Making a Purchase, 1880-1939 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary The purpose of this book is to explore men's relationships with clothes, and the motivations and influences that lay behind male consumer behaviour. The book seeks to find out what the use, sale and acquisition of clothes reveal about men's lives and identities in the period between 1880 and 1939
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Men's clothing industry -- Great Britain -- History
Masculinity -- Great Britain -- History
Masculinity
Men's clothing industry
Männerkleidung
Männlichkeit
Manskäder -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet.
Maskulinitet -- historia -- Storbritannien.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351918251
1351918257