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This is the definitive book on fashion in the 1940s, covering everything from French style under the Occupation and the make do and mend mentality, through issues of dress, patriotism and propaganda and the development of faux fabrics and rationing, to the rise of American fashion houses and the creation of Christian Diors New Look. International attitudes emerge from some 250 illustrations, including period advertisements, images of real clothes, and first-hand accounts from contemporary publications.

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Flipping through this book will provide endless hours of entertainment for swing dancers, retro-designers, and lovers of fashion history.

Flipping through this book will provide endless hours of entertainment for swing dancers, retro-designers, and lovers of fashion history.-- StyleList.com Shows how fashion gave form to the anxieties and aspirations of the times. . . . Engrossing.-- Fiberarts

Flipping through this book will provide endless hours of entertainment for swing dancers, retro-designers, and lovers of fashion history. Shows how fashion gave form to the anxieties and aspirations of the times. . . . Engrossing.

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Jonathan Walford was the founding curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto and a founder of the Fashion History Museum in Canada. His previous books include Forties Fashion. He lives in Canada.

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