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Today is publication day for Kitted Out: Style and Youth Culture in the Second World War!🎉So many amazing stories of how people adapted their uniform with individual touches, how resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe was communicated through dress #KittedOut https://t.co/qKzEZ9R5Cg
‘There is not much you can do to make a WAAF’s uniform sexy (apart from pulling your belt in till you can hardly breathe), ', wrote Joan Wyndham, despite the poster. 'But jumping up and down on your cap to loosen up the brim does help to give it a rakish air.’ #KittedOut #ww2
Couturier ‘Bunny’ Roger fought with the British Rifle Brigade in #WW2. He added a silk scarf to his khaki, rouge on his cheek, and a copy of Vogue close at hand. After the war his neo-Edwardian style inspired the Teddy Boys #KittedOut @TheHistoryPress https://t.co/qKzEZ9zuKI
One of my favourite women featured in new book #KittedOut is bohemian Joan Wyndham, who served as a #WAAF in #WW2. ‘I can’t describe the effect wings have on a WAAF,’ she wrote of the RAF uniform. ‘Our theme song should really be “If I Only Had Wings”.’ https://t.co/kylkFJYUT7
A costume sketch for Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra (1934), by designer Travis Banton. When Colbert was dissatisfied with one set of sketches, the story goes that she drew blood and smeared it over them to demonstrate her disgust #classichollywoodstyle
From sketch to screen - Edith Head's pink dress for Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief, designed for a flirtatious high-speed drive around the Riviera #HitchcocksHeroines https://t.co/IWNSlE7YaR
What to get the Hitchcock fan this Christmas? Hitchcock's Heroines is a beautiful companion piece of a book, telling the story of the women, and the meaning behind the costumes, in his movies https://t.co/dDZk7VgCnv
Grace Kelly's coral pink day dress in To Catch a Thief, designed by Edith Head, was to be as feminine and breezy as possible for when her character, Francie, makes a play for Cary Grant #HitchcocksHeroines https://t.co/u9qZ6ux6zB
One of my favourite movie costumes of all time - Grace Kelly in a Helen Rose-designed gown for High Society. (And she gets to dance with Frank) #ClassicHollywoodStyle
Madeleine Carroll in The 39 Steps #HitchcocksHeroines https://t.co/asFsMzCAEs