Be in the fashion - cover your hair
Poster
ca. 1940 (made)
ca. 1940 (made)
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This intended audience for this poster were women, many of whom would not have experienced factory work before the war. Using photographic representation, it illustrates ways in which women could be safe and and yet stylish by covering their hair. The artist employed the graphic style of international Modernism. The use of a surrealist style enabled him to avoid focusing on any particular social class or setting, and so the poster was able to communicate to women from across the social spectrum.
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Title | Be in the fashion - cover your hair (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
Brief description | 'Be in the fashion - cover your hair', safety at work poster signed 'A.R.' and produced by RoSPA, printed by Loxley Bros. Ltd, United Kingdom, about 1940 |
Physical description | Safety at work poster produced for RoSPA, depicting an abstracted and dark-red factory, set against a blue 'sky', and issuing white smoke from its chimneys. Over this are five photographic images of the heads of women wearing different styles of hats, scarves or hair-nets, framed against patterned backgrounds. The message at the bottom of the poster reads, 'be in the fashion - cover your hair', in blue letters that mimic the style of hand-writing. |
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Credit line | Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko |
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Summary | This intended audience for this poster were women, many of whom would not have experienced factory work before the war. Using photographic representation, it illustrates ways in which women could be safe and and yet stylish by covering their hair. The artist employed the graphic style of international Modernism. The use of a surrealist style enabled him to avoid focusing on any particular social class or setting, and so the poster was able to communicate to women from across the social spectrum. |
Other number | LS.2257 - Leslie Schreyer Loan Number |
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Accession number | E.1897-2004 |
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Record created | March 17, 2006 |
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