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Dressed for War - Uniform, Civilian Clothing and Trappings, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
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Dressed for War - Uniform, Civilian Clothing and Trappings, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
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Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work,
gender bending in goggles and overalls over their trousers, a girl
at the Paris theatre in pleated, beaded silk, a bangle on her
forearm made from copper fuse wire from the Somme. What people wear
matters. Copiously illustrated, this book is the story of what
people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front
through the seismic years of World War I. Nina Edwards, reveals
fresh aspects of the war through the prism of the smallest details
of personal dress, of clothes, hair and accessories, both in
uniform and civilian wear. She explores how, during a period of
extraordinary upheaval and rapid change, a particular preference
for a type of razor blade or perfume, say, or the just-so
adjustment to the tilt of a hat, offer insights into the individual
experience of men, women and children during the course of World
War I.
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