Glamour Road
color, fashion, style, and the midcentury automobile
$187.55
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2022
Summary
Glamour Road: Women, Fashion, and the Midcentury Auto Boom
How midcentury modern design and the changing roles of women in a male-dominated society influenced American postwar automotive design. This highly visual book explores the seldom-told story of how glamour, fashion, design, and styling became the main focus of automotive marketing from the postwar 1940s through the 1970s.
With the expansion of the American suburbs after WWII, women suddenly needed cars of their own. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780764363900 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0764363905 |
| Author: | Tom Dolle, Jeff Stork |
| Publisher: | Schiffer Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Schiffer Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 1.95kg |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 305mm |
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About The Author
Tom Dolle
Jeff Stork is a classic car historian, writer, and researcher. He spent his career in the automobile industry, with over 20 years of marketing experience with the Big Three. He curates a large private automobile collection in Palm Springs, California.
Tom Dolle is an award-winning graphic designer with 30 years as a design studio owner in New York and 20 years as an adjunct professor in Pratt Institute’s Graduate Communication Design program. He is the creative director at Destination PSP, a product design company in Palm Springs, California.
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