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ISBN: HB: 9780300109252

Yale University Press

December 2005

400 pp.

30.6x26.6 cm

40 colour illus.

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Wearing Propaganda

Textiles in Japan, Britain and the United States (1931-1945)

Protest fashion from the Vietnam War years is widely familiar, but today few are aware that dramatic fashion and textile designs served as patriotic propaganda for the Japanese, British, and Americans during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945). This fabulously illustrated book presents hundreds of examples of how fashion was employed by commercial interests on all sides of the conflict to boost morale and fan patriotism. From a kimono lined with images of U. S. planes being bombed to a British scarf emblazoned with optimistic anti-rationing slogans, Wearing Propaganda documents the development of the role of fashion as propaganda first in Japan and soon thereafter in Britain and the United States. The book discusses traditional and contemporary Japanese styles and what they revealed about Japanese domestic attitudes to war, and it shows how these attitudes echoed or contrasted with British and American fashions that were virulently anti-Japanese in some instances, humorously upbeat about wartime deprivations in others. With insights into style and design, fashion history, material culture, and the social history of Japan, the United States, and Britain, this book offers unexpected riches for every reader.

About the Author

Jacqueline M. Atkins is adjunct professor at New York University and curator of the Bard Graduate Center Wearing Propaganda exhibition.

Reviews

"...a scholarly, and surprisingly fascinating, look at fashion and textiles as propaganda... during the Asia Pacific War" – The Independent

"...lavish and beautiful... it is the volume's painstaking exposition of [wartime designs and patterns]... which establishes it as truly original work" – Cynthia Rose, Crafts Beautiful