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ADLINGTON, LUCY: : GREAT WAR FASHION - TALES FROM THE HISTORY WARDROBE

UK.STROUD,GLOUCESTERSHIRE.THE HISTORY PRESS,2013.,

ISBN 9780752493480.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NEW.NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn and NO price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,contemporary b/w photograph (uniformed,female RAF despatch rider+cycle,c.1918) to front with gold+white lettering,gold spine with white letters,rear panel with facsimile reproduction of colour fashion image from autograph album,c.1915 with black+gold quotes(3); with negligible shelf-wear,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without blemish; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread, apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/ clean contemporary grey+white facsimile fashion adverts reproductions,illustrated sets of endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,11-247pp [paginated] includes Prelude,22 chapters with profuse facsimile contemporary b/w+colour illustrations and photographs and modern colour photographic clothes' models,a 5pp bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title,title page with colour photographic frntis to its verso,contents list/table with colour photograph to verso, acknowledgements,a Word About Money (and it's contempraneous worth+value today)a b/wa handbag photograph with model's modelling colour photograph to verso and to verso of last page, publisher's illustrated b/w advert. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. Imagine `stepping into someone else's shoes'. Walking back in time a century ago,which shoes would they be? A pair of silk sensations costing thousands of pounds designed by Yantonnay of Paris or wooden clogs with metal cleats that spark on the cobbles of a factory yard? Will your shoes be heavy with mud from trudging along duckboards between the tents of a frontline hospital,or stuck with tufts of turf from a football pitch? Will you be cloaked in green and purple,brandishing a `Votes for Women' banner or will you be the height of respectability, restricted by your thigh-length corset? 'Great War Fashion' opens the woman's wardrobe in the years before the outbreak of war to explore the real woman behind the stiff,mono-bosomed ideal of the Edwardian Society lady draped in gossamer gowns,and closes it on a new breed of women who have donned trousers and overalls to feed the nation's guns in munitions factories and who,clad in mourning,have loved and lost a whole generation of men. The journey through 'Great War Fashion' is not just about the changing clothes and fashions of the war years,but much more than that - it is a journey into the lives of the women who lived under the shadow of war and were irrevocably changed by it.At times,laugh-out-loud funny and at others,bringing you to tears,Lucy Adlington paints a unique portrait of an inspiring generation of women,brought to life in rare and stunning images. The journey through 'Great War Fashion' is not just about the changing clothes and fashions of the war years,but much more than that - it is a journey into the lives of the women who lived under the shadow of war and were irrevocably changed by it. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,because of item's heavier weight,of this item - 1.2Kg unpackaged - contact seller for correct shipping quote - stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,or if any extra is required,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/ FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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