The American Look: Sportswear, Fashion and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York
"Written with clarity, elegance and meticulous attention to detail, this important new book raises the bar for fashion scholarship. Here is a genuinely new history that both challenges existing myths about Paris and sets American fashion in its proper cultural and economic context.  Rebecca Arnold’s adroit study shows how the lens of fashion can be refocused to reveal important insights about gender, identity and nationhood."--Caroline Evans, Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London