Fashions of a decade / Baker, Patricia

Chronicles clothing trends of the 1940s and the influence of World War II on styles of dress, availability of many fabrics, and the new ideas of "designers at war.".

A decade-by-decade look at trends in twentieth-century fashion and the social and cultural events that influenced them, covering the 1950s, with original paintings, photographs, and illustrations of record jackets, advertisements, posters, and other memorabilia.

Surveys the fads, fashions, trends, and cultural and intellectual preoccupations of the self-satisfied, consumeristic 1950s.