Women in wartime : dress studies from Picture Post 1938 1945 Picture Post magazine was made famous by its pioneering photojournalism which vividly captured a panorama of wartime events and the ordinary lives affected. This book is the first to examine this fascinating primary source as a cultural record of womens dress history. Reading the magazines visual narratives from 1938 to 1945 it weaves together the ways in which design style and fashion were affected by and responded to the state of being at war and the new gender roles it created for women