Horrockses Fashion: Off-The-Peg Fashion in the 40s and 50s

Author:   Christine Boydell
Publisher:   V & A Publishing
ISBN:  

9781851776016


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 May 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Horrockses was one of most respected ready-to-wear labels of the late 40s and 50s. This title tells the story of this iconic label and its role in the history of the British high street, while also exploring the connections between couture and ready-to-wear fashions in the post-war decades.

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Author:   Christine Boydell
Publisher:   V & A Publishing
Imprint:   V & A Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   1.111kg
ISBN:  

9781851776016


ISBN 10:   185177601
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 May 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Christine Boydell is principal lecturer in Design History at De Montfort University. Her publications include The Architect of Floors:Modernism, Art and Marion Dorn Designs (1996) and she is co-editor of Disentangling Textiles: Techniques for the Study of Designed Objects (2003). In 2001 she curated Our Best Dresses: The Story of Horrockses Fashions for the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. She is also curator of Horrockses Fashions which opens at the the Fashion & Textile Museum in London in May 2010.

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