Catherine Horwood

Keeping Up Appearances

Fashion and Class Between the Wars

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The British have always been concerned about accent, appearance and class, but at no time during the twentieth century was 'keeping up appearances' more important than during the 1920s and 1930s. From the impecunious youth anxious to create a favourable impression at the local tennis club dance to female office workers advised by the Daily Mail that women in business kept 'their position partly, if not chiefly, by appearance', we peer into the intimate lives and anxieties of the middle classes as they dressed to impress. Choices were influenced as much by the advent of mass production, economic stringency, snobbery and the influence of Americ… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7524-9557-6
EAN: 9780752495576
Produktnummer: 14825253
Verlag: The History Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 216 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

CATHERINE HORWOOD is an honorary research fellow at the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway, University of London. A former journalist, she has a doctorate in history on interwar dress codes and has published on the social history of sports clothes, on consumerism and women's magazines. She has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and to BBC Radio 4 programmes on shopping and social history.