America 1930-1939: Fashion Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 54 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.

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Overview

Endings and Beginnings

Adjusting to Austerity

Streamline Moderne

The Bauhaus

Organic Architecture

A New Look for Cars

American Fashion

Hollywood

Daily Wear

Roadside Americana

Getting By

Topics in the News

American Automobiles

The Automobile and the American Dream

Of Bulls and Cars

Sloanism

Styling

Streamlining

A New Look for Cars

"Drop Frame"

Ford's V-8

The Airflow

The Birth of the Big Three

Thinning the Market

The Little Five

Crossley's Little Car

Nation of Nomads

American Fashions

No More Flappers

Cafe Society

Debutantes

The Simple Print Dress

The Look for Men

The Star and the Prince

A New Generation of Designers

Home-Grown Talents

Buy American

Trendsetting Designers

New Vogue for Simplicity

Innovations

Accessories

Hollywood

Hollywood Costuming

Long Hours, Little Glamour

Macy's "Dress-of-the-month"

Bootleg Fashions

Cinema Fashions

Architecture

Art Deco

Functionalism and Constructivism

The Bauhaus

Buildings for a Mass Society

Frank Lloyd Wright

Broadacre City

Fallingwater

he Johnson Wax Building

A New Home for the Met

Rockefeller's Center

Government Funding

WPA

The Empire State Building

Roadside Architecture

Goodbye Europe, Hello America

National Parks

Cabin Camps and Motor Courts

From the Bizarre to the Regional

Howard Johnson

Streamline

Streamline Moderne

Modernism in Motion

From Trains to Cars

Architecture

Popularizing the New Look

Variations in Home Design

Interior Design

The Tubular Chair

Functionalism

American Homes

Varieties

High Style

Headline Makers

Hattie Carnegie

From Hats to Dresses

"Simple, Beautiful Clothes"

Designing for the Middle Class

Training a New Generation

Lilly Dache

The Well-Designed Hat

Bicycle Cap as Inspiration

Early Life

Starting Her Own Shop

Sculptural Hats

Walter Gropius

Founder of the Bauhaus

Early Life

Fascination with the Machine

Emigrating from Fascism

Harvard

Elizabeth Hawes

Selling Dresses and Opinions

Early Life

Living in Paris

Opening Her Own Shop

Designs for Average Women

Writing

Charles James

Proving American Style Sensibility

Early Life

Life in Europe

Unusual Textures and Colors

Back to America

Winning a Coty

Muriel King

Classic Designs

Fashion Drawing

Striking Out Alone

King's Creative Techniques

Designs for the People

Valentina

An Architect of Dress

Early Life

Establishing a Name

Costuming and the Theater

The Art of Fashion

Frank Lloyd Wright

America's Premier Architect

Early Life

The Prairie Style

Wright's Mature Period

Usonian

People in the News

Deaths

Publications

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America 1930-1939: Fashion Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 54 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1930-1939.