Forties Fashion and the New Look
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Forties Fashion and the New Look by Colin Mcdowell
An account of how people in Britain looked during World War II. Illustrated with numerous photographs, advertisements and drawings, this book provides comprehensive coverage of 40s fashion, from a dress sewn from a torn German parachute to Queen Elizabeth's (now the Queen Mother) ball gowns.
Adelheid Rasche is an historian of fashion and illustration. She is the director of the Lipperheidesche Kostumbibliothek, Art Library of the State Museums of Berlin. Colin McDowell is creative director of Fashion Fringe and senior fashion writer for the London Sunday Times Style Magazine. He has written numerous books on fashion, the most renowned being McDowell's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion, referred to as the bible' among the fashion set.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780747530329 |
| ISBN 10 | 0747530327 |
| Title | Forties Fashion and the New Look |
| Author | Colin Mcdowell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 1997-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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