Keeping Up Appearances (eBook)

Fashion and Class Between the Wars

Catherine Horwood (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
216 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9557-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 America, as by personal aesthetics. Seemingly insignificant items such as ties, braces, gloves and hats, could convey a lack of breeding if worn incorrectly. This engagingly written and illustrated book explores the social mores behind one of society's most popular activities, and reveals not only how we dressed but why.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: '20s • '30s • Accent • accent, appearance, class. 1920s, '20s, '30s, middle class, middle classes, british middle class, british middle classes, mass production, economic stringency, snobbery, america, aesthetics, ties, braces, gloves, hats, breeding, breed, society, social more, dress, dressed, fashion, class, inter-war • Aesthetics • America • Appearance • braces • Breed • Breeding • British middle class • british middle classes • Class • class. 1920s • Clothes • Clothing • dress • Dress Code • dressed • economic stringency • Fashion • fashion and class between the wars • garments • gloves • hats • interwar, dress code, social history, clothes, garments, clothing, women in history, women's history • inter-war|interwar • Mass production • middle class • Middle Classes • snobbery • Social History • social more • Society • ties • Women in History • Women's history
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-9557-7 / 0752495577
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-9557-6 / 9780752495576