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Genre/Form: | Illustrated works History Pictorial works |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan Walford |
ISBN: | 9780747811640 0747811644 |
OCLC Number: | 813411397 |
Description: | 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | Origins of the American fashion industry -- The American look: high fashion -- Designers and manufacturers of high fashion -- Off the rack: from Seventh Avenue to Hollywood -- Designers and manufacturers of everyday fashions -- Tops and bottoms: American hats and shoes. |
Series Title: | Shire library, no. 695. |
Other Titles: | Nineteen fifties American fashion |
Responsibility: | Jonathan Walford. |
Abstract:
The 1950s was the first decade when American fashion became truly American. American designers looked to what American women needed and found inspirations for American fashion design. This title follows the American fashion industry from New York's 7th Avenue to the beaches of California in search of clothes that defined 1950s American fashion.
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- Women's clothing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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- Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
- Nineteen fifties.
- Fashion.
- Women's clothing.
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