Rebecca Arnold: The American Look, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The American Look
- Fashion, Sportswear and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York
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- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 04/2027
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350563513
- Item number:
- 12708523
- Volume:
- 272 Pages
- Weight:
- 503 g
- Format:
- 234 x 156 mm
- Thickness:
- 28 mm
- Release date:
- 1.4.2027
- Series:
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Note
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Blurb
By the 1940s the New York fashion industry had come into its own. Sportswear, which had evolved from its origins to include simple casual wear for travel, leisure, town and country, was at the centre of this shift.
Drawing on an array of sources, this book examines how New York sportswear evolved during the 1930s and 1940s to become the definitive American style. It reveals how designers such as Claire McCardell, Clare Potter and Tina Leser created a fashion identity for New York that was as dynamic and modern as the city itself.
Author Rebecca Arnold interrogates the American ideal of athletic, long-limbed women and looks for the first time at how sportswear impacted and was impacted by ideas of patriotism and democracy, as well as its links to notions of cleanliness and hygiene, and to 1930s theories of body image and contemporary dance.
As part of the Foundations of Fashion Studies series, this classic text now includes a new foreword by Emma McClendon and a new afterword and further reading list by the author.
Biography
Rebecca Arnold is a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities in the Department of History of Design at the Royal College of Art. She was Guest Professor at the Centre for Fashion Studies at Stockholm University 2006-07. She has lectured internationally at a wide range of colleges including the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York University, Bard Graduate Center, George Washington University, and the Smithsonian Institution.
