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"To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest."
- Brendan Behan's father quoted by Shay Duffrin in his one-man show 'Confessions of an Irish Rebel' 1984
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 Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Berg Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN: 1859735487
Release Date: Jan 7, 2002
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Before the outbreak of WWII, French fashion represented the very pinnacle of style, and French women the epitome of chic. Unparalleled for glamour and elegance, all things French were noted and emulated.
One morning in September 1939, into this idyllic world of haute couture and Café society came the shattering experience of war, followed by the German Occupation. French women, determined not to give way to the inevitable austerities, sought innovation: hats made from blotting paper or newspapers—the latter signaling political allegiances —and blouses made out of parachute silk, often obtained through dubious means. Not only did life go on, but creativity flourished—culottes, which enabled stylish bicycle journeys, became the vogue, and couturiers capitalized on deprivation with wit—dubbing designs "Coal" and "Black Coffee," or naming an entire collection after Métro stops.
Fashion under the Occupation provides the only in-depth history of these blackest years in French history, long overlooked by fashion history because of the impoverished industry and deprivations that affected design. Widely acknowledged as the authoritative work on fashion during this period. Fashion Under the Occupation is available in English for the first time.
Author Biography: Dominique Veillon is at Institut d'histoire du Temps, CNRS.
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