Fashions of a Decade: The 1940s (Fashions of a Decade)

Part of a history of fashion series which looks at the 20th century decade by decade. This volume looks at the style of the 1920s and the social and cultural background to the fashions of the period. The book is illustrated with a mixture of original and source documentation. Fashions of a Decade is a new series packed with color illustrations, taking a fresh and exciting look at the most influential trends in twentieth-century fashion.

Each decade from the 1920s to the 1990s is covered by a separate book, lavishly illustrated with original paintings and contemporary photographs, record jackets, advertisements, posters, and more. The test and pictures place fashion in the context of contemporary culture, international events, and the relentless pace of social change.

Chronicles clothing trends of the 1940s and the influence of World War II on styles of dress, availability of many fabrics, and the new ideas of "designers at war."

A decade-by-decade look at trends in twentieth-century fashion and the social and cultural events that influenced them, covering the years between 1920 and the 1990s, with original paintings, photographs, and illustrations of record jackets, advertisements, posters, and other memorabilia Surveys the fads, fashions, trends, and cultural and intellectual preoccupations of the self-satisfied, consumeristic 1950s. Surveys the fads, fashions, trends, and cultural and intellectual preoccupations of the comfortable, high-living 1940's A pictorial survey chronicling the international fashions of the 1940's Description based on print version record.