
When Broadway Was the Runway
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture. Long before Hollywood''s red carpet spectacles, Broadway theater introduced American women to the latest styles. At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater i...
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture. Long before Hollywood''s red carpet spectacles, Broadway theater introduced American women to the latest styles. At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater i...