Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence and Fashion Between the Wars

Given how dangerously exposed our bodies were to risk at the height of Covid-19 pandemic, it is now hard imagine a relaxed return fashion. Living uncomfortably in for so long has given self-fashioning whole new significance. But body anxieties also surfaced century ago, when people felt sense unease about their corporeal presence wake war and plague. In Danger Path Chic, Lucy Moyse Ferreira returns 1920s explore what recovery from First World War 1918 influenza pandemic meant As author argues, images violence, death, disease widespread magazines, photography, haute couture 1930s. The color black, previously worn by Victorians mourning, become chic choice bright young things postwar decade. Chanel’s little black dress, instance, disrupted effervescent world fashion giving way darker, more sinful mood. decade saw publication James Joyce’s Ulysses Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, novels that pondered alienation its survival.