  Learning to BuyAdding Style to Goods
By 1900 all major industrial countries had become aware of the importance of the consumption of goods by their citizens... Read More
Changes in Retailing
There were also changes in retailing. The department stores estabIished in the second half of the 19th century - Bon Marche in Paris... Read More
The Spread of Fashion
The "flapper" of the 1920s has long been considered the symbol for women' s emancipation in the 20th century. In feet the freedom of manners...Read More
Luxury and Severity
Sportswear, the artistry of the great dress designers, and the ideas of clress reformers combined to create a new esthetic...Read More
Poiret and Avant-garde Fashion
Paul Poiret was the leading Paris designer from 1908 to World War 1. Possibly influenced by the ideas... Read More
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 Sport: The British InheritanceBritish School Sports
Before 1900 many sports had developed from local adaptations of traditional foIk games into organized activities with uniform rules, special playing kit, cups and trophies, team colors and caps. The most influential setting for the modernization of sports was provided by the British public schools. Read More
 The Olympic MovementThe inauguration of international associations, for football in 1904 and lawn tennis in 1913, accelerated international competition. The modem Olnnpic mavement and its organizing body, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), was founded in 1895 by Pierre de Coubertin. It was the exemplar for international amateur sport, in which the contestants participate without being paid. In common with other international bodies, it was controlled by middle- and upper-class men with economic... Read More
Women and Sports
There was a popular idea that women were unsuited to take part in vigorous sports. Only moderate exercise, without overindulgence or risk of strain, was considered suitable for females and their potential to have healthy children. Read More
The Rise of Football
British football, as it developed in the state school system and clubs, transformed ideas about what modem sport means. By 1910 there were 300,000 football players in 12,000 clubs registered with the Football Assoeiation (FA). Read More
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 Entertainmentin the City
The Press and City Life
The first media moguls of the 20th century were the publishers of large-circulation American and British... Read More
The Rise of Advertising
The real novelty of the daily press was not so much its content as the scale of its enterprise and its financing... Read More
 The Early Film Industry
None of cinema' s inventors envisaged the vast entertainment industry that would develop from it, for no such industry, and no public for such an industry, had existed before. Read More
First Movie Theaters
Before 1910 the movies had discovered that sold cinema tickets; the earliest stars were stage actors like emme John Bunny or Biliy Anderson, bilied in 1912. But the greatest of Hollywood' s formative years were Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Read More
Early European Film
For much of the century's first decade, innovation in film production came more from Europe... Read More
The First Hollywood Stars
Before 1910 the movies had discovered that sold cinema tickets...Read More
Ragtime and Dance
To one veteran songwriter and publisher the 1910s marked a crucial turning point: "The public of the... Read More
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