Author: NEW FEMALE INSTRUCTOR.
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Published: 1836
Total Pages: 706
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Mitchell (Allegorist)
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Denise Amy Baxter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 571
ISBN-13: 1350114073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem more pressing. In this age of empire, the coding of class, gender and race was frequently negotiated through dress in complex ways, from fashionable dress which restricted or exaggerated the female body to liberating reform dress, from self-defining black dandies to the oppressions and resistances of slave dress. Richly illustrated with over 100 images and drawing on a plethora of visual, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.
Author: Vivienne Richmond
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-09-19
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1107042275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.