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Victorian Fashion Accessories

Autor Ariel Beaujot
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2012
In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress. Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian Fashion Accessories explores how women's use of gloves, parasols, fans and vanity sets revealed their class, gender and colonial aspirations.The colour and fit of a pair of gloves could help a middle-class woman indicate her class aspirations.The sun filtering through a rose-colored parasol would provide a woman of a certain age with the glow of youth. The use of a fan was a socially acceptable means of attracting interest and flirting.Even the choice of vanity set on a woman's bedroom dresser reflected her complicity with colonial expansion. By paying attention to the particular details of women's accessories we discover the beliefs embedded in these artefacts and enhance our understanding of the culture at large. Beaujot's engaging prose illuminates the complex identities of the women who used accessories in the Victorian culture that created and consumed them. Victorian Fashion Accessories is essential reading for students and scholars of, history, gender studies, cultural studies, material culture and fashion studies, as well as anyone interested in the history of dress.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847886835
ISBN-10: 1847886833
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 53 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Berg Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Explains the hidden meanings of accessories: fans were used to communicate with potential lovers; the colour of gloves signalled class aspirations; and the style of a woman's vanity set could indicate her approval of colonial expansion

Notă biografică

Ariel Beaujot is a Visiting Scholar and Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Department of History at the University of Vermont. She has also published the following articles relating to this study of Victorian fashion accessories: The Beauty of Her Hands: The Glove and the Making of the Middle-Class Body, and Coiffing Vanity: A Study of the Manufacture, Design, and Meaning of the Celluloid Hairbrush in America, 1900-1930.

Cuprins

Introduction1. The Glove and the Making of Middle-Class Womanhood2. The Language of the Fan: Pushing the Boundaries of Middle-Class Womanhood3. Underneath the Parasol: Umbrellas as Symbols of Imperialism, Race, Youth and Flirtation4. The Celluloid Vanity Set and the Search for AuthenticityConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Descriere

An accessible and lively study of Victorian fashion accessories as tools of flirtation and indicators of class, political ideology, chastity and respectability.

Recenzii

In addition to explaining the history of how these objects were manufactured and sold, Beaujot offers interesting insights into middle class Victorian social customs, prejudices, hopes and fears. This book will appeal both to academics, especially as an introductory text, and to anyone interested in the Victorian period.