- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Thames & Hudson; illustrated edition edition (27 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0500514291
- ISBN-13: 978-0500514290
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 23.6 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 384,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`A must for anyone interested in retro fabrics and clothes designs'
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'A visually seductive volume'
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'A visually seductive volume'
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`A delight to pore over ... very useful for students ... Fabulously illustrated throughout, it will probably be on the wish list of serious textile departments'
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a must buy for any 1940's fans out there. Not only does this book show many styles and the fashion of that era but it is also packed with information. It covers the reasons for the ongoing changes in fashion, practical and smart designs, everything you can think of. It looks at designs from Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan! The book has lots of archive information and the amazing thing is all the designs plus accessories are in colour, so you get the real deal! I am thoroughly enjoying this wonderful book, credit to Jonathan Walford.
Mandy Foster-Wright
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
While not being a particular fan of lots of clothes being `displayed' via the medium of the mannequin - no matter the period appropriateness of such - the broad use of mannequins in this book works particularly well. While viewing the contemporary fashion scene in the likes of Britain and America during WWII in publications of this nature is nothing new, the research that has gone into material for the book has certainly gone a great deal further than that of the `extra mile'. I particularly like the perspectives taken from Germany, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Canada and even New Zealand, Australia and Japan. The even today revelation that Paris `ignored the war', and to a certain extent continued to move forward fashion's representational mode, is surprising in itself. But perhaps, the actual meaning of this is given little meaning - in terms of what physical clothing of the time looked like - in hitherto publications of this nature, in this book it is well-exampled.
Given the part title of the book, and putting aside arguments as to whether what Christian Dior established with his `New Look' was a good or bad thing for women, the chapter dedicated to the post-war years is certainly not simply `a trotting-out' of the same tired old images heavily featured in other publications. As has been achieved throughout the book, fashion representation, and therefore to a large extent, women's self-defined representation of themselves at the time, is given a broader slant.
A number of the material in the book comes immediately before the 1940s, emphasising the relevancies of the 1930s - and what had gone before - to what was going on in fashion - and within the world as a whole in the 1940s itself. As you would expect, and is obviously furthermore befitting, given the momentous nature of WWII, the period features heavily in this publication. Again, international aspects of wartime fashion - and how this was represented in print media of the time are particularly interesting - emphasising the international nature of the research that has gone in to the book.
In essence, the goal of the book - to show women's fashion of the 1940s period from international perspectives - has been particularly well rationalised and executed in the drawing together of images and text that make this book an essential purchase to anyone interested in what fashions of the 1940s period were actually like. Rather than, for example merely being another gathering of relative glamour and well-to-do people's clothing taken from publications such as international versions of Vogue magazine. Perhaps the only criticism of the book would be the sparse representation given to men's clothing. Given what Anne Hollander suggests as a need to acknowledge developments to both men's and women's clothing, to more accurately understand either - the momentous changes happening to women's social position throughout most of `the developed world' in the first-half of the twentieth century naturally befits that fashion, image and meaning is given the rightful position as a representation of women's self-expression through clothing.
Given the part title of the book, and putting aside arguments as to whether what Christian Dior established with his `New Look' was a good or bad thing for women, the chapter dedicated to the post-war years is certainly not simply `a trotting-out' of the same tired old images heavily featured in other publications. As has been achieved throughout the book, fashion representation, and therefore to a large extent, women's self-defined representation of themselves at the time, is given a broader slant.
A number of the material in the book comes immediately before the 1940s, emphasising the relevancies of the 1930s - and what had gone before - to what was going on in fashion - and within the world as a whole in the 1940s itself. As you would expect, and is obviously furthermore befitting, given the momentous nature of WWII, the period features heavily in this publication. Again, international aspects of wartime fashion - and how this was represented in print media of the time are particularly interesting - emphasising the international nature of the research that has gone in to the book.
In essence, the goal of the book - to show women's fashion of the 1940s period from international perspectives - has been particularly well rationalised and executed in the drawing together of images and text that make this book an essential purchase to anyone interested in what fashions of the 1940s period were actually like. Rather than, for example merely being another gathering of relative glamour and well-to-do people's clothing taken from publications such as international versions of Vogue magazine. Perhaps the only criticism of the book would be the sparse representation given to men's clothing. Given what Anne Hollander suggests as a need to acknowledge developments to both men's and women's clothing, to more accurately understand either - the momentous changes happening to women's social position throughout most of `the developed world' in the first-half of the twentieth century naturally befits that fashion, image and meaning is given the rightful position as a representation of women's self-expression through clothing.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderful book full of inspiring and beautiful pictures of clothing from the 1940's. Lot's of pictures and also great information about the history of the item, This is a book that you will return to again and again to immerse yourself in some amazing outfits and re-read the facts behind the frocks. You will not be dissapointed with this book if you have a love and passion for either the 1940's or beautiful clothes.
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Great book for 40s lovers
I was really pleased with this book. There's a lot of text covering different country's fashions throughout the 40s and the photos are fab too. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Captain Sensible
We need more books like this
If you want a book on the fashions of WW2 this is the one for you. Very informative, great colour pictures and goes into just the right amount of information. Read more
Published 13 months ago by suzie p
Forties Fashion From Siren Suits to the New Look
Excellent book for anyone wanting to know about 1940's fashions. It was good to see how fashions were in the rest of eurpoe, including Gemany, also North America, Australia and... Read more
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I think it very hard to find a very well constructed Vintage fashion book, some concentrated too much on just clothes on mannequins and stock photos, some have too much text that... Read more
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