UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC5322021
Format:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781350023413
Series Statement:
Dress, Body, Culture Series
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Timeline -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE Fashion Theory in the Nineteenth Century -- 1 Thomas Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus -- 2 Sarah Stickney Ellis, from 'Dress and Manners' in The Women of England, Their Social Duties, and Domestic Habits -- 3 George H. Darwin, 'Development in Dress', Macmillan's Magazine -- 4 Thorstein Veblen, 'The Economic Theory of Woman's Dress', Popular Science Monthly -- SECTION TWO Dress Reform -- 5 Eliza Lynn Linton, 'The Girl of the Period', Saturday Review -- 6 Mary Eliza Haweis, 'Beauty in Dress' and 'Taste in Dress' in The Art of Dress -- 7 Florence Pomeroy, Viscountess Harberton, 'Rational Dress Reform', Macmillan's Magazine -- 8 Oscar Wilde, 'The Philosophy of Dress', New York Daily Tribune -- SECTION THREE Crinolines and Corsets -- 9 'Crinoline', from Illustrated News of the World -- 10 Harriet Martineau [From the Mountain], 'A New Kind of Wilful Murder', Once a Week -- 11 Violet Greville, 'Victims of Vanity', The National Review -- 12 Contemporary Reports of Crinoline and Corsets -- SECTION FOUR Men's Dress -- 13 'Dress, Dandies, Fashion, andamp -- c.', Fraser's Magazine -- 14 'Modern Beau Brummellism', London Society -- 15 W. S. Gilbert, 'When I first put this uniform on', from Patience -- or, Bunthorne's Bride! -- SECTION FIVE Occasional Dress: Wedding, Mourning, Children's and Fancy Dress -- 16 Contemporary Accounts of Victorian Weddings -- 17 Richard Davey, from A History of Mourning -- 18 Ardern Holt, from Fancy Dresses Described: Or, What to Wear at Fancy Dress Balls -- 19 'Children's Dress', Bradford Daily Telegraph -- SECTION SIX Production and Industry -- 20 [George Dodd] 'Wallotty Trot', Household Words -- 21 'How we get Mauve and Tyrian Purple', Chambers's Journal
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22 'Progress of the Sewing-Machine', Bow Bells -- SECTION SEVEN International Influences and Echoes -- 23 [Myra], 'The Latest from Paris', Myra's Journal of Dress and Fashion -- 24 'Death of the Chief Ruler of the Fashionable World', The Ladies' Treasury -- 25 'A Japanese Village in London', The Ladies' Treasury -- SECTION EIGHT Coda: Reflecting on the Victorians -- 26 Virginia Woolf, 'Modes and Manners of the Nineteenth Century', Times Literary Supplement -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Mitchell, Rebecca Fashioning the Victorians London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA,c2018 ISBN 9781350023390
Language:
English
Keywords:
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