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Dressed for War: Uniform, Civilian Clothing and Trappings, 1914 to 1918

By Nina Edwards

Book information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2015
ISBN
9780755694754, 9781780767079
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17504573 bytes)
Pages
\226
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 18:46:56

Description

Men in khaki and grey squatting in the trenches, women at work, gender bending in goggles, with overalls on over their trousers. What people wear matters. Well illustrated, this book tells the stories of what people on both sides wore on the front line and on the home front through the seismic years of World War I. Nina Edwards reveals fresh aspects of the war through the prism of the smallest details of personal dress, of clothes, hair and accessories, both in uniform and civilian wear. She explores how, during a period of extraordinary upheaval and rapid change, wearing a certain perfume, say, or the just-so adjustment to the tilt of a hat offer insights into the individual experience of men, women and children during the course of World War I.

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