This book reveals the impact of wartime on British fashion, how a spirit of utility, make-do and mend unleashed a whole new creativity among Britain\'s women starved of high Fashion by rationing.
Finally, we see the re-.
It also shows how world war shifted the centre of the international Fashion from Paris to New York and established a casual American style for British women and men.
Women doing war work created new street Fashion looks.
Many of these home dressmakers copied the high-end looks.
This book reveals the impact of wartime on British fashion, how a spirit of utility, make-do and mend unleashed a whole new creativity among Britain\'s women starved of high Fashion by rationing