Ebook Fashion, costume, and culture: Clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear through the ages (Volume 5: Modern world part II: 1946-2003)

Volumes 5 discuss what is some-times referred to as the democratization of fashion. At the begin-ning of the twentieth century, high quality, stylish clothes weredesigned by and made available to a privileged elite; by the middleto end of the century, well-made clothes were widely available inthe West, and new styles came from creative and usually youth-oriented cultural groups as often as they did from designers.