Skirts : fashioning modern femininity in the twentieth century /

"In a sparkling, beautifully illustrated social history, Skirts traces the shifting roles of women over the twentieth century through the era's most iconic and influential dresses. While the story of women's liberation has often been framed by the growing acceptance of pants over the...

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Hlavní autor: Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly (Autor)
Médium: Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2022]
Vydání:First edition.
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Obsah:
  • Introduction
  • The Delphos : goddess dressing
  • The tennis dress : changing the game
  • The little black dress : women in uniform
  • The wrap dress : working it
  • The strapless dress : women on the brink
  • The bar suit : reinventing the postwar woman
  • The naked dress : daring to bare
  • The miniskirt : fashion's final frontier
  • The midi skirt : divider of nations
  • The bodycon dress : anatomy as accessory
  • Conclusion : the future of skirts.