100 Years of Fashion: Twentieth Century in Pictures - Softcover

Ammonite Press

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9781906672263: 100 Years of Fashion: Twentieth Century in Pictures

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906672261 ISBN 13: 9781906672263

Publisher: Ammonite, 2009

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This book takes us on a fascinating journey through a hundred years of fashion and style, both on the London catwalks and on the streets of ordinary towns. So much social history can be seen reflected in the clothes of ordinary people: Victorian attitudes were inseparable from the clothes of the time, the relaxed atmosphere and pleasure-seeking of the 1920s can be seen clearly in its pyjama-clad girls, wartime austerity is acutely visible in ration-driven outfits followed by the new couture of the 1950s - and then from the '60s to the end of the '90s we see a kaleidoscopic rush through a rapidly changing society.

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PA Photos is the photographic agency of the PA Group, the UKs national press agency best known as The Press Association. Established in the 19th Century, the PA has been capturing and archiving news photography for 140 years. Along the way, PA Photos has incorporated other great British photo libraries, such as Barratts and Sport & General, into its archives, resulting in an extraordinary library of over 15 million images recording British life over more than a century. Many of these pictures have not been seen since the time that they were first taken: to modern eyes the archives of PA Photos yield a unique insight into Britains recent past. Thanks to the science of photography we can view the 20th century more accurately than any that came before, but it is thanks to news photography and in particular the great news agency that is the Press Association, that we are able now to eyewitness the events that made up life in Britain, not so long ago.

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