Twentieth-century American fashion / edited by Linda Welters and Patricia A. Cunningham.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Dress, body, culture.
Other Authors: Welters, Linda
Cunningham, Patricia A. (Patricia Anne)
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.
Edition:English edition.
Series:Dress, body, culture.
Subjects:
Clothing and dress > United States > History > 20th century.
Fashion > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The americanization of fashion / Linda Welters and Patricia A. Cunningham
  • Fashion in the gilded age: a profile of Newport's King family / Rebecca J. Kelly
  • Dress and culture in Greenwich Village / Deborah Saville
  • The influence of American jazz on fashion / Susan L. Hannel
  • The americanization of fashion: sportswear
  • The movies and the 1930s / Patricia Campbell Warner
  • Promoting American designers, 1940-1944: building our own house / Sandra Stansbery Buckland
  • The Onondaga Silk Company's 'American Artist Print Series' of 1947 / Amy Lund and Linda Welters
  • The beat generation: subcultural style / Linda Welters
  • Space age fashion / Suzanne Baldaia
  • Dressing for success: the re-suiting of corporate America in the 1970s / Patricia A. Cunningham
  • Television and fashion in the 1980s / Patricia A. Cunningham, Heather Mangine, and Andrew Reilly
  • Flava in ya gear: transgressive politics and the influence of hip-hop on contemporary fashion / Robin M. Chandler and Nuri Chandler-Smith.