Dressing Modern Frenchwomen: Marketing Haute Couture, 1919–1939
- ISBN-10
- 1421429225
- ISBN-13
- 9781421429229
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-03-03
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Mary Lynn Stewart
Description
Dressing Modern Frenchwomen draws from thousands of magazine covers, advertisements, fashion columns, and features to uncover and untangle the fascinating relationships among the fashion industry, the development of modern marketing techniques, and the evolution of the modern woman as active, mobile, and liberated.
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- 2008-03-31
- 305 pages
- Paperback
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