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Published in 1987 and with a foreword by Sir Hardy Amies, Forties Fashion set out to be the definitive tome on that crucial era of fashion and style. Colin McDowell looks at how ordinary people in Britain still managed to look sharp and stylish, during a war with heavy clothes rationing, but whose Utility Clothing and make-do-and-mend policies kept fashion standards extraordinarily high – especially compared to today, when it should be much easier and cheaper to look this stylish. McDowell shows how resilient and innovative were the women of the wartime era, and how from such a difficult time there still emerged major fashion movements such as Dior’s New Look. This hardback first edition is in very good condition.
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