| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Series |
Dress, body, culture |
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Dress, body, culture.
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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 |
| Summary |
Americans began the 20th century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and trainers. How did this come about? This book considers how Americans went from imitating British and French fashion to developing their own sense of style |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Clothing and dress
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Fashion
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Popular culture
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Anthropology.
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Social Sciences.
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Manners & Customs.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Welters, Linda
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Cunningham, Patricia A. (Patricia Anne)
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| LC no. |
2004030880 |
| ISBN |
9781847882837 |
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1847882838 |
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