Knitting Fashions of the 1940s
Subtitle: Styles, Patterns and History
Publisher: Crowood Press; The Crowood Press
Published: April 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781861268624
Subjects: Knitting; Crafts & Hobbies; Crafts / Hobbies; Hobbies/Crafts; Needlework - Knitting; Crafts & Hobbies / General
First sentence: When they went out to dine on an August evening in 1939, women were wearing richly-textured floor-length gowns in soft black morocain, patterned in silver or red and green lame stripes, showing a good deal of glamorous decolletage.