As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising (Costume Society of America Series)
Автор:Daniel Delis Hill Год: 2005 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 226 ISBN: 0896725340 For the fashion industry and women's studies, an interdisciplinary masterpiece This lavishly illustrated chronicle of American women's fashions examines relationships between the mass-market ready-to-wear industry, fashion journalism, and fashion advertising. Throughout the twentieth century, these industries fueled one another's successes by identifying an ever-widening consumer class and fanning the desire to be fashionable. Daniel Hill employs a wealth of primary source material to document not only this symbiosis but also an evolution in American fashion, society, and culture, as evidenced by more than six hundred fashion ads that appeared in Vogue from the magazine's debut in 1893 through the next ten decades. These American vignettes document more than the looks and fashions of their eras; they reveal dramatic transformations in women's roles and self-image?witness the metamorphosis from alabaster Victorian homemaker to painted flapper in just a generation,...
