Dress and Identity in America

The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964

Mr Daniel Delis Hill

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
22 February 2024

History of fashion; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Fashion & society

Series: Dress and Fashion Research

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.

By: Mr Daniel Delis Hill
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350373914
ISBN 10: 1350373915
Series: Dress and Fashion Research
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 22 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Daniel Delis Hill is an independent fashion historian. He is the author of Peacock Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2018). He has contributed to the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and the American National Biography (Oxford University), and has taught fashion history at the University of the Incarnate Word, Texas, USA.

Reviews for Dress and Identity in America: The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964

Comprehensive and thoughtful, Daniel Delis Hill extends existing studies of post-war American dress, paying welcome attention to marginalised and mundane identities. Distinctive due to its robust contextualisation and detailed socio-political framing, the book presents a timely history. * Alison L Goodrum, Norwich University of the Arts, UK *