Service and style : how the American department store fashioned the middle class
"Service and Style re-creates the days of downtown department stores in their prime, from the 1890s through the 1960s. Exploring in detail the wide range of merchandise they sold, particularly style goods such as clothing and home furnishings, it examines how they displayed, promoted, and sometimes produced goods. It reveals how the stores grew, why they declined, and how they responded to and shaped the society around them."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
1st ed
St. Martin's Press, New York, 2006