Woodward, Bob, 2:70
Woolworths, 1:159 60
Working class families, depiction on
TV, 2:91 92
World Disarmament Conference,
1932, 1:42
World War I (WWI): America in, 1:4,
1:7, 1:19, 1:31; couture houses shut
down, 1:151; immigration to
America and, 1:7; mass production
techniques, 1:9; men’s fashions,
1:256 63; ready-to-wear
manufacturers, 1:155; slacker
marriages, 1:127; U.S. as a world
power, 1:36; women in the
workforce, 1:11, 1:96; women’s
fashions, 1:188 97
World War II (WWII): collapse of
haute couture during German
occupation of Paris, 1:153; economic
growth after, 2:3; effects on
American life, 1:44 45, 1:140 41;
ended Great Depression, 1:46;
fashion industry during, 1:153;
fashion magazines, 1:164; Glenn
Miller’s ‘‘In the Mood,’’ 1:79;
Hollywood films, 1:82 83;
mail-order catalogs, 1:165; Marshall
Plan, 1:45; men’s fashion, 1: 280 86;
Pearl Harbor, 1:20, 1:44 45, 1:48;
racial discrimination during,
1:50 51; scientific advances, 1:10;
treatment of Japanese Americans,
1:45; United States in,
1:5, 1:6,
1:20;
women in the workforce, 1:46,
1:141 42; women’s fashion,
1:223 36
World Wide Web, 2:10 11, 2:41. 2:43;
catalog and home shopping,
2:169 70; fashion communication,
2:174; sexual content, 2:151
Worth, Charles Frederick, 1:151
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1:57, 1:72
Yom Kippur War, 1973, 2:33
Young Miss (magazine), 1960s and
1970s, 2:171
YSL, 1960s, 2:161
Yuppies, 79 80
Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), 2:52
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 1:64
Zimmermann telegram, 1:28, 1:31
Zippers, 1920s and 1930s, 1:166 67
Zoot-suit riots, 1:336
Zydeco, 1:81
390
Cumulative Index