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Contents: Home comforts -- Clean and fresh -- Daily dressing -- School days -- Working worlds -- Getting around -- Going shopping -- Fun and games -- Out on the town -- Rituals and traditions
Summary: The decades of the 1950s and '60s continue to exert a powerful fascination, as seen in the lasting popularity of Mad Men, Crown Lynn collectibles and mid-century design. In New Zealand, these years have been remembered in popular culture as a 'golden age' of God, Queen and Country, full employment, the baby boom, Sir Edmund Hillary and 'Ladies, a plate!' - as well as the birth of the teenager and the seedbed of later change. But what was life really like? Real modern tells a vibrant and varied story of real life in this compelling era through images and, above all, objects. It is a rich compendium of the things that New Zealanders acquired and desired, that they used at school, work or play, and that they wore and saw around the country. (Book jacket)