Wearing propaganda: textiles on the home front in Japan, Britain, and the United States, 1931-1945

Director's preface / Susan Weber Soros

Foreword / Jacqueline M. Atkins

Introduction / J.M. Atkins

Maps

Time line 1895-1945: The Asia Pacific War and its precedents, 1895-1945 / Yumiko Yamamori.

Part I. Setting the context: Ch.1. Setting the context / J.M. Atkins

Ch.2. Propaganda on the home fronts: clothing and textiles as message / J.M. Atkins

Ch.3. Propaganda precedents: pre-1930 propaganda textiles / J.M. Atkins and Miyuki Otaka.

Part II. The visual culture of war: Ch.4. Japan's beautiful modern war / John W. Dower

Ch.5. Potatoes are protective, too: cultural icons of Britain at war

Ch.6. An American vision: progaganda on the home front during World War II / Marianne Lamonaca.

Part III. Wearing propaganda: fashion, textiles, and morale on the home front: Ch.7. "Extravagance is the Enemy": fashion and textiles in wartime Japan / J.M. Atkins

Ch.8. Design and war: kimono as "parlor-performance" propaganda / Kashiwagi Hiroshi

Ch.9. War-promoting kimono (1931-45) / Wakakuwa Midori

Ch.10. Keeping up home front morale: "Beauty and duty" in wartime Britain / Pat Kirkham

Ch.11. Showing the colors: America / Beverly Gordon

Part IV. The propaganda textile motifs of the Asia-Pacific War: Ch.13. An arsenal of design: themes, motifs and metaphors in propaganda textiles/ J.M. Atkins.