Keeping Up Appearances - Fashion and Class Between the Wars (Paperback, New edition)

The British have always been concerned about accent, appearance and class, but at no time during the twentieth century was the cliche 'keeping up appearances' more to the point than during the 1920s and 1930s. 'It is easier to recruit for monasteries and convents than to induce ...a British officer to walk through Bond Street in a golfing cap on an afternoon in May' commented George Bernard Shaw in 1903. This book looks at how the middle classes chose to dress themselves during the period, and shows how those choices were coloured just as much by the advent of mass production, methods of shopping, economic stringency, snobbery, and the influence of America, as by personal aesthetics. Drawing on a range of primary sources, including Mass Observation records, it vividly records the experiences of dress shopping during the interwar years, and reveals the importance of the dress codes to which both men and women adhered, and the social conventions which they demonstrated.

General

Imprint:	Sutton Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2006
Authors:	Catherine Horwood
Dimensions:	244 x 172mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7509-3958-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Costume, clothes & fashion Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-7509-3958-3
Barcode:	9780750939584

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