Twentieth-century American fashion / edited by Linda Welters and Patricia A. Cunningham.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American culture were reflected in fashion? What role did popular culture play? This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitating British and French fashion to developing their own sense of style. It examines such influences on dress as class, jazz and hip hop, war, the space race, movies, television and sports. Further, the book shows how gender, psychology, advertising, public policy, shifting family values, the American design movement and expertise in mass production profoundly influenced an American style that has been exported across the globe. From New York City's Bohemians to Hollywood's stars, Twentieth-Century American Fashion reveals the continuing importance of clothing to American identity and individual experience.

The Americanization of Fashion / Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island, and Patricia A. Cunningham, Ohio State University -- Fashion in the Gilded Age : A Profile of Newport's King Family / Rebecca J. Kelly, Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island -- Dress and Culture in Greenwich Village / Deborah Saville, University of Rhode Island -- The Influence of American Jazz on Fashion / Susan L. Hannel, University of Rhode Island -- The Americanization of Fashion : Sportswear, the Movies and the 1930s / Patricia Campbell Warner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst -- Promoting American Designers, 1940-44 : Building Our Own House / Sandra Stansbery Buckland, University of Akron -- The Onondaga Silk Company's 'American Artist Print Series' of 1947 / Amy Lund and Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island -- The Beat Generation : Subcultural Style / Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island -- Space Age Fashion / Suzanne Baldaia, Johnson Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island -- Dressing for Success : The Re-Suiting of Corporate America in the 1970s / Patricia A. Cunningham, Ohio State University -- Television and Fashion in the 1980s / Patricia A. Cunningham, Ohio State University, Heather Mangine and Andrew Reilly, Northern Illinois University -- Flava in Ya Gear : Transgressive Politics and the Influence of Hip-Hop on Contemporary Fashion / Robin M. Chandler, Northeastern University, Boston, and Nuri Chandler-Smith, Executive Director of Blackout Boston.