Dressing for Austerity

A new look for Austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification ''Austerity Britain'' in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour government''s phil...