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Making do : Britons and the refashioning of the postwar world
Carruthers, Susan L. (Susan Lisa)2025
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Place reservation for Making do : Britons and the refashioning of the postwar worldImagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant - cheap, disposable, indestructible - but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, a textile famine loomed. What would everyone wear as uniforms were discarded and soldiers returned home, Nazi camps were liberated, and millions of uprooted people struggled to subsist? In this richly textured history, Carruthers unpicks a familiar wartime motto, 'Make Do and Mend', to reveal how central fabric was to postwar Britain. Clothes and footwear supplied a currency with which some were rewarded, while others went without. This book moves from Britain's demob centres to liberated Belsen - from razed German cities to refugee camps and troopships - to uncover intimate ties between Britons and others bound together in new patterns of mutual need.
Main title:
Making do : Britons and the refashioning of the postwar world / Susan L. Carruthers.
Imprint:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Collation:
400 pages
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781009464284 (hbk)
Dewey class:
391.00941
Language:
English
Subject:
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryFashion -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryClothing trade -- Great Britain -- Equipment and supplies -- History -- 20th centuryRationing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- InfluenceBeauty and FashionHistoryCultural studies: customs & traditions
BRN:
3042685
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