eBook Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s ePub

Patricia Mears is deputy director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. The other discovery is the Chinese fashionistas of the 1930s, with their beautiful, sophisticated designs nicely covered in one compact chapter.

Patricia Mears is deputy director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York. G. Bruce Boyer is a leading menswear writer and historian. Weaknesses include the lack of an index (a fairly significant omission in such a name- and concept-rich book), also the small print. Nonetheless, highly recommended for fans of Golden Age fashion and 1930s cultural life in general. 8 people found this helpful.

By contrast, the fashions of the 1930s were made for movement, highlighting the natural and classically idealized body.

Despite the dire financial environment of the 1930s, this decade gave rise to great technical and aesthetic innovations in fashion. This handsomely illustrated book is the first to analyze important developments in both men’s and women’s fashions A brilliant look at how modernizing technical and stylistic changes of the 1930s gave rise to international trends in fashion. By contrast, the fashions of the 1930s were made for movement, highlighting the natural and classically idealized body.

A book that focused on high fashion for men and women in the 1930s

Despite the dire financial environment of the 1930s, this decade gave rise to great technical and aesthetic innovations in fashion. This handsomely illustrated book is the first to analyze important developments in both men’s and women’s fashions of A brilliant look at how modernizing technical and stylistic changes of the 1930s gave rise to international trends in fashion. A book that focused on high fashion for men and women in the 1930s. The images are beautiful and the essays describe the influences of design pretty well.

Patricia Mears, G. Bruce Boyer. A brilliant look at how modernizing technical and stylistic changes of the 1930s gave rise to international trends in fashion. Despite the dire financial environment of the 1930s, this decade gave rise to great technical and aesthetic innovations in fashion. This handsomely illustrated book is the first to analyze important developments in both men's and women's fashions of that time. Select experts contribute texts that delve into the economic, political, and cultural influences that shaped these emergent styles.

This book gives you a very good insight into amazing fashion of 1930s. This book gives you a very good insight into amazing fashion of 1930s. The best thing about it is that it covers mens tailoring tailoring, too. I recommend it for both fashion lovers(wonderful photos) and academic reaserchers of the subject (the text is well written and covers a great deal of 1930s fashion's aspects). 3 people found this helpful.

This handsomely illustrated book is the first to analyze important . Patricia Mears is deputy director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

This handsomely illustrated book is the first to analyze important developments in both men’s and women’s fashions of that time. The revival of classicism and other artistic influences were crucial to the creation of this clean, minimal, and modern new look.

Cover catalog Elegance in an age of crisis Evening dresses on show

Cover catalog Elegance in an age of crisis Evening dresses on show. The crisis of the period is not far from what we are experiencing now, fashion has always been witness to the era, located at the time of the streets and solutions will be those that will shape the last century. In that scenario so paralyzing and hopeless, fashion indeed found a new way to express themselves by creating new forms, new ideas, new technologies. The curator of the exhibition, Patricia Mears, deputy director of the Museum Fit & C. explains that the reason for dedicating an exhibition to the ’30s is because the look of that decade was in some way a precursor to the modern one.