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Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 - Ready for Action (Paperback)
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Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 - Ready for Action (Paperback)
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List price R535
Loot Price R444
Discovery Miles 4 440
You Save R91 (17%)
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What would you wear to war? How would you dress for a winter
mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion
show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in
Tokyo..? Ready for Action is a unique, illustrated insight into the
experiences of women worldwide during World War Two and its
aftermath. The history of ten tumultuous years is reflected in
clothes, fashion, accessories and uniforms. As housewives,
fighters, fashion designers or spies, women dressed the part when
they took up their wartime roles. Attractive to a general reader as
well as interesting to a specialist, Ready for Action focuses on
the experiences of British women, then expands to encompass every
continent affected by war. Woven through all cultures and countries
are common threads of service, survival, resistance and emotion.
Historian Lucy Adlington draws on interviews with wartime women, as
well as her own archives and costume collection. Well-known names
and famous exploits are featured and many never-before-told stories
of quiet heroism. You'll indulge in luxury fashion, bridal
ensembles and enticing lingerie, as well as thrifty
make-do-and-mend. You'll learn which essential garments to wear
when enduring a bomb raid and how a few scraps of clothing will
keep you feeling human in a concentration camp. Ready for Action is
richly illustrated throughout, with many previously unpublished
photographs, 1940s costumes and fabulous fashion images. History
has never been better dressed.
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