Book Great war Fashion: Tales From the History Wardrobe Lucy Adlington

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Lucy Adlington

Publisher

The History Press Ltd

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

248

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780752493480

Edition No.

Synopsis "Great war Fashion: Tales From the History Wardrobe"

Imagine `stepping into someone else's shoes'. Walking back in time a century ago, which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed by Yantonnay of Paris or wooden clogs with metal cleats that spark on the cobbles of a factory yard? Will your shoes be heavy with mud from trudging along duckboards between the tents of a frontline hospital... or stuck with tufts of turf from a football pitch? Will you be cloaked in green and purple, brandishing a `Votes for Women' banner or will you be the height of respectability, restricted by your thigh-length corset? Great War Fashion opens the woman's wardrobe in the years before the outbreak of war to explore the real woman behind the stiff, mono-bosomed ideal of the Edwardian Society lady draped in gossamer gowns, and closes it on a new breed of women who have donned trousers and overalls to feed the nation's guns in munitions factories and who, clad in mourning, have loved and lost a whole generation of men. The journey through Great War Fashion is not just about the changing clothes and fashions of the war years, but much more than that - it is a journey into the lives of the women who lived under the shadow of war and were irrevocably changed by it. At times, laugh-out-loud funny and at others, bringing you to tears, Lucy Adlington paints a unique portrait of an inspiring generation of women, brought to life in rare and stunning images.

Lucy Adlington

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Lucy Adlington es una historiadora y novelista británica con más de veinte años de experiencia en investigación histórica. Es autora de siete novelas para adolescentes que han sido nominadas y preseleccionadas para la Medalla Carnegie de CILIP, el Premio del Libro de Manchester, el Premio del Libro de Leeds y el Premio del Libro de Rotherham. Su novela La cinta roja se ha convertido en un best seller mundial. También dirige History Wardrobe, una empresa que organiza charlas sobre historia con vestuario de distintas épocas.

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