About the Author

Mike Brown is an authority on the Home Front during the Second World War and is author of several books, including The 1940s Look, The 1950s Look, and is co-author of Digging for Victory. Carol Harris is a journalist who specialises in the history of fashion in the 1930s and 1940s. She is the author of 'Collecting Fashion' and, 'Women at War: The Home Front', co-author of The Ration Book Diet, and has also contributed to exhibitions at the Imperial War Museum.