A Coat of Many Colors : : Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel /

A Coat of Many Colors : : Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel / / Anat Helman.

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A Coat of Many Colors investigates Israel's first seven years as a sovereign state through the unusual prism of dress. Clothes worn by Israelis in the 1950s reflected political ideologies, economic conditions, military priorities, social distinctions, and cultural preferences, and all played a...

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Helman, Anat,
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, [2020]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
2020
Language:English
Series:Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Simplicity by Necessity and Choice
  • Chapter Two: Fashion Makers and Consumers
  • Chapter Three: Israeli Dress between East and West
  • Chapter Four: Clothes and Ideology in the Kibbutzim
  • Chapter Five: Representing the State, Molding the Nation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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