Men and Menswear (History of Retailing and Consumption)
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: October 22, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780754603849
Subjects: Manufacturing industries; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; History; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; Commerce; Modern - General; Great Britain; Masculinity; Men's clothing industry
Description: The purpose of this book is to explore men's relationships with clothes, and the motivations and influences that lay behind male consumer behaviour. The book seeks to find out what the use, sale and acquisition of clothes reveal about men's lives and identities in the period between 1880 and 1939.