Dressing for austerity : aspiration, leisure and fashion in post-war Britain / Geraldine Biddle-Perry.
A new look for austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification 'austerity Britain' in the late 1940s is colored in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on altern...
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London :
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: austerity, aspiration and affluence
- Austerity by design: fashioning a new Jerusalem
- Austerity in transition: demobilization/remoblization
- Austerity by consensus; democratizing desire
- Lessons in austerity: styling postwar citizenship
- Austerity and affluence: another look at the new look
- Austerity and aspiration: a boy, a girl and a bike
- Conclusion: the autonomy of austerity: postwar affluence by design.