Costume Reference Ten: Nineteen Fifty to Present Day

By Marion Sichel

The tenth in the series on British dress, this covers a period of dramatic change marked by Teddy Boy, beatnik, swinging 60s and hippy fashions. Trends include an increase of colour, unisex designs, informality and greater use of man-made fibres. The author ties in developments with social change, noting how women's increasing freedom and equality was reflected in the trouser suit, jeans and T-shirt; how the communication revolution created an atmosphere of striking but short-lived fashions such as hot-pants. The period also saw the end of the dominance of haute couteriers and the emergence of cheap, easy-care, mass-produced clothes aimed particularly at the young.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713415096
• ISBN13: 9780713415094
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.