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Some Wore Bobby Sox
K Schrum
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Description for Some Wore Bobby Sox
Paperback. Series: Girls' History & Culture Book S. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Images of teenage girls in poodle skirts dominated American popular culture on the 1950's. But as Kelly Schrum shows, teenage girls were swooning over pop idols and using their allowances to buy the latest fashions well beforehand. After World War I, a teenage identity arose in the US, as well as a consumer culture geared toward it. From fashion and beauty to music and movies, high school girls both consumed and influenced what manufacturers, marketers, and retailers offered to them. Examining both national trends and individual lives, Schrum looks at the relationship between the power of consumer culture and the ... Read more
Images of teenage girls in poodle skirts dominated American popular culture on the 1950's. But as Kelly Schrum shows, teenage girls were swooning over pop idols and using their allowances to buy the latest fashions well beforehand. After World War I, a teenage identity arose in the US, as well as a consumer culture geared toward it. From fashion and beauty to music and movies, high school girls both consumed and influenced what manufacturers, marketers, and retailers offered to them. Examining both national trends and individual lives, Schrum looks at the relationship between the power of consumer culture and the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
Series
Girls' History & Culture Book S.
Number of Pages
209
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403973979
SKU
V9781403973979
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About K Schrum
Kelly Schrum is Assistant Director of the Center for History and New Media, and Assistant Research Professor, Department of History and Art History, at George Mason University.
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