Making Do - Bog af Susan L. (University of Warwick) Carruthers - Hardback

Making Do - Susan L. (University of Warwick) Carruthers

Imagine a world in which clothing wasn't superabundant - cheap, disposable, indestructible - but perishable, threadbare and chronically scarce. Eighty years ago, when World War II ended, a textile famine loomed. What would everyone wear as uniforms were discarded and soldiers returned home, Nazi camps were liberated, and millions of uprooted people struggled to subsist? In this richly textured history, Carruthers unpicks a familiar wartime motto, 'Make Do and Mend', to reveal how central fabric was..

Making Do - Susan L. Carruthers - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk