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North American Dress (Twentieth-Century Developments in Fashion and Costume)
North American Dress - Twentieth-Century Developments in Fashion and Costume Author:Louise Aikman The 20th century was a time of tremendous technological progress, social change, and visual innovation, and witnessed major historical events that would change the world, and America's influence in it, forever. With its involvement in two World Wars, America entered the international arena in a way it had never done before, and afterwards, e... more »xperienced a massive post-war boom. New appliances and luxuries became available to the masses, and television became the dominant source of news and entertainment, establishing its influence over American culture and then taking American culture and fashion to the rest of the world. "North American Dress" charts the vast changes in fashion that resulted from these dramatic events, focusing on the relationship between cultural developments and the clothes worn at that time.« less