Dress and identity in America : the baby boom years 1946-1964 / Daniel Delis Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Daniel Delis, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Dress and fashion research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Clothing and dress.

Fashion--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Fashion.

Masculinity--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Masculinity.

Feminism--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism.

African Americans--Clothing--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Children's clothing--United States--History--20th century.

Children's clothing.

Physical Description:

xi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024.

Summary:

"Dress and Identity in America is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950s-a backlash to the wartime tumult, privations, and social upheavals of the Second World War. The study looks at how American men sought to recapture a masculine identity from a generation earlier, that of the stoic patriarch, breadwinner, and dutiful father, and in the process, became the men in the gray flannel suits who were complacently conventional and conformist. Parallel to that is a look at how American women, who had donned pants and went to work in wartime munitions factories or joined services like the WACS and WAVES, were now expected to stay at home as housewives and mothers, dressed in cinched, ultrafeminine New Look fashions. As the Space Age dawned, their baby boom children rejected the conventions of their elders and experimented with their own ideas of identity and dress in an emerging era of counterculture revolutions." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: Growing Up

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: The Postwar Years

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: Crisis in Masculinity

Men's Dress from Ivy League to Continental to Mod

Ethnic Men's Identity and Dress

Women of the Baby Boom Era: Lessons of Youth

Women's Identities in the Baby Boom Years

Women's Fashions of the Baby Boom Era

Baby Boom Children

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1350373915

9781350373914

OCLC:

1377574008

Publisher Number:

99996043688