Fifty years of fashion : new look to now /

Steele, Valerie, 1955-

Fifty years of fashion : new look to now / Valerie Steele ; photographs from the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York by Irving Solero. - New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2000. - vii, 168p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. facsim., ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

This translation originally published: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165) and index.

Valerie Steele's survey of postwar fashion not only describes the great designers and their creations, but also places trends in clothing within prevailing social and cultural contexts.

Specialized.


Translation of: Se vêtir au XXe siêcle (1945-1990).

9780300087383 (pbk.) : £15.00 0300087381 (pbk.) : £15.00


Fashion--History--United States--20th century.
Costume design--History--United States--20th century.

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