When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture

by Marlis Schweitzer

Book Overview

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

When Broadway Was the Runway explores the central and largely unacknowledged role of commercial Broadway theater in the birth of modern American fashion and consumer culture. Long before Hollywood's red carpet spectacles, Broadway theater introduced American women to the latest styles. At the beginning of the twentieth century, theater impresarios captured the imagination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222163X
• ISBN13: 9780812221633
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"