Fashioning the feminine
Subtitle: representation and women's fashion from the fin de siècle to the present
By: Cheryl Buckley and Hilary Fawcett.
Contributors: Fawcett, Hilary.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; I.B.Tauris
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Femininity -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Fashion -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Women in popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Description: Representations of fashionable femininity have multiplied throughout the 20th century, with complex versions of feminine identity being found in fashion store advertising, magazines, photography, and museum collections. This book examines the relationship between women's fashion, female representation and femininity in Britain throughout the 1900s. The authors unpick the dynamics of the fashion system and set fashion into the context of British social life, using the oral history accounts of women of all classes to highlight the meanings of particular fashions.
Notes: Bibliography: p150-153. - Includes index.