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Service and style : how the American department store fashioned the middle class / Jan Whitaker.

Title
Service and style : how the American department store fashioned the middle class / Jan Whitaker.
Author
Whitaker, Jan
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.

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Description
342 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
Summary
"Service and Style re-creates the days of downtown department stores in their prime, from the 1890s through the 1960s. Exploring in detail the wide range of merchandise they sold, particularly style goods such as clothing and home furnishings, it examines how they displayed, promoted, and sometimes produced goods. It reveals how the stores grew, why they declined, and how they responded to and shaped the society around them."--Jacket.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1900-1950
  • Department stores > United States > History > 20th century
  • Middle class > United States > History > 20th century
  • Department stores > History > United States > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-331) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Behemoth to dinosaur -- Lower, upper, middle -- Women's wear -- Bricks and mortar -- Window-shopping -- Razzle-dazzle -- Floorwalkers, Fashionists, and founders -- The goods -- At your service -- Children's wonderland -- Fashioning the teen market -- Everything for the home.
ISBN
  • 0312326351
  • 9780312326357
LCCN
^^2006040542
OCLC
63680065
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library