Fashion in the 1970s
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:18th Oct '18
£8.99
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This is a definitive overview of fashion in the 1970s, featuring platform heels, hotpants, punks and New Romantics.
The 1970s was a decade of style contrasts: every extreme of fashion was met by an equally trendy opposite reaction. Ankle-length maxi skirts vied for attention with super-short hot-pants. Outfits in vibrant prints and obviously man-made fabrics contrasted with subtly-coloured ensembles in wool jerseys and silky crepes. Delicate floral cottons, hand-knits and hand-tooled leather came up against boldly synthetic and plastic looks perched atop platform shoes – for men and women alike. More so than at any other time, fashion looked backwards in order to dress the future with quirkily ironic retro looks, while alternative street-style movements such as Punk used appearance to startle and challenge the establishment. In this book, Daniel Milford-Cottam uses colourful photographs to illustrate an eye-opening introduction to the bold fashions that still have such resonance today.
ISBN: 9781784423049
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 146g
64 pages