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Fashioning the tube: posters and the new consumers

Fashion historian, Emmanuelle Dirix, discusses how Underground posters were designed to appeal to women in the 1920s and 1930s


Fashion historian, Emmanuelle Dirix, discusses how Underground posters were designed to appeal to women in the 1920s and 1930s. It became apparent that ‘posters accompanied the housewife all the way from her front door to the shop window’, resulting in a new style of poster emerging to cater for this new consumer audience.


Speaker(s):

Emmanuelle Dirix | talks | www

 

Date and Time:

25 November 2008 at 6:30 pm

Duration:

1 hour

 

Venue:

London Transport Museum
Covent Garden Piazza
London
WC2E 7EE
020 7565 7298
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk

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Tickets:

£8.00 adults; £6.00 concessions; £4.00 students

Available from:

Tickets can be pre booked on 020 7565 7298

Additional Information:

Part of London Transport Museum's exhibition 'The Art of Poster - a century of design' which runs until 31 March 2009

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