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Author : Patricia Anne Cunningham
Release : 2000
Genre : Costume
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914 by : Patricia Anne Cunningham
Download or read book Reforming Fashion, 1850-1914 written by Patricia Anne Cunningham. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia A. Cunningham
Release : 2003
Genre : Design
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Book Rating : 422/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 by : Patricia A. Cunningham
Download or read book Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 written by Patricia A. Cunningham. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America in the latter half of the 18th century and the first decade of the 20th century, and the types of garments adopted by women to overcome the challenges posed by fashionable dress. It considers the many advocates for reform and examines their motives, their arguments for change, and how they promoted improvements in women's fashion. Though there was no single overarching dress reform movement, it reveals similarities among the arguments posed by diverse groups of reformers, including especially the equation of reform with an ideal image of improved health. Drawing on a variety of primary and secondary sources in the USA and Europe - including the popular press, advice books for women, allopathic and alternative medical literature, and books on aesthetics, art, health, and physical education - the text makes a significant contribution to costume studies, social history, and women's studies.
Author : Carla Rice
Release : 1985
Genre : Clothing and dress
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Book Synopsis Fashion, Feminism and Conflict by : Carla Rice
Download or read book Fashion, Feminism and Conflict written by Carla Rice. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia A. Cunningham
Release : 2003
Genre : Costume
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 by : Patricia A. Cunningham
Download or read book Reforming Women's Fashion, 1850-1920 written by Patricia A. Cunningham. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the efforts toward reforming women's dress that took place in Europe and America in the latter half of the 18th century and the first decade of the 20th century, and the types of garments adopted by women to overcome the challenges posed by fashionable dress. It considers the many advocates for reform and examines their motives, their arguments for change, and how they promoted improvements in women's fashion. Though there was no single overarching dress reform movement, it reveals similarities among the arguments posed by diverse groups of reformers, including especially the equation of reform with an ideal image of improved health. Drawing on a variety of primary and secondary sources in the USA and Europe - including the popular press, advice books for women, allopathic and alternative medical literature, and books on aesthetics, art, health, and physical education - the text makes a significant contribution to costume studies, social history, and women's studies.
Author : Gayle V. Fischer
Release : 2001
Genre : Design
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 821/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pantaloons & Power by : Gayle V. Fischer
Download or read book Pantaloons & Power written by Gayle V. Fischer. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing is often an indication of an individual's status, and gender. By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women's fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. This visible separation of the sexes was paralleled in other arenas - social, cultural, and religions. Some women defied this convention and cut their skirts short, abandoned their corsets, and put on trousers. In Pantaloons and Power Gayle V. Fisher shows how the reformers' denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes.
