Julie’s previous books include a biography of her grandfather, Sir Philip Toosey, a prisoner of war who worked on the Thailand-Burma Railway and who was the inspiration for the fictional colonel played by Sir Alec Guinness in the film, Bridge on the River Kwai. The book was written in association with the Imperial War Museum and looks at how the clothes people wore reflected their lives and outlooks as austerity measures were introduced and women took on traditional male jobs. Julie is one of the headline authors who will be coming to the Island’s inaugural literary festival, Connections: Jersey Festival of Words 2015, at which she will be talking about her new book, Fashion on the Ration and other works. WHEN you think of the Second World War, fashion is not one of the first subjects that normally springs to mind.Īnd it wasn’t for writer and biographer Julie Summers either, until work on a project led her down the fashion road – and to the realisation of what a serious subject it could be. But wartime style turned out to be anything but frivolous as she explained to Gill Kay ahead of her talk at the Opera House When the best-selling author of Jambusters, Julie Summers, was asked to write about fashion, she thought it was a superficial subject.
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