Dressing for Austerity

Dressing for Austerity
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Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 1780766289
ISBN-13 : 9781780766287
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Book Synopsis Dressing for Austerity by : Geraldine Biddle-Perry

Download or read book Dressing for Austerity written by Geraldine Biddle-Perry and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look for Austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification 'Austerity Britain' in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour government's philosophy of 'Austerity by design' in a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and consumer agency. The book examines the immediate post-war period - its politics, its fashions and its people - in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.


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