{"product_id":"dress-and-identity-in-america-the-baby-boom-years-1946-1964-paperback","title":"Dress and Identity in America: The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Delis Hill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoanne B. Eicher\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDress and Identity in America \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Delis Hill\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent fashion historian. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePeacock Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2018). He has contributed to the \u003ci\u003eBerg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eAmerican National Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University), and has taught fashion history at the University of the Incarnate Word, Texas, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756079800653,"sku":"9781350373952","price":84.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/L06IUfVsSC9781350373952.webp?v=1776722066","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/dress-and-identity-in-america-the-baby-boom-years-1946-1964-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}