Fashioning The Victorians

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350023388
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashioning the Victorians written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion, taking us from corsets to crinolines, dandies to decadent 'New Women'. A user-friendly collection that provides a solid grounding in the fashion history of the nineteenth century, it brings together for the first time sources that trace the evolution of dress and the social, cultural and political discourses that influenced it. Featuring seminal writings by authors and commentators such as Oscar Wilde, Thorstein Veblen and Sarah Stickney Ellis, plus satirical cartoons, illustrations and fashion plates from key sources such as Punch magazine, it combines primary texts and illustrations with accessible explanatory notes to offer a wide-ranging overview of the period for both students and researchers. Each section opens with an introduction that examines the major trends in Victorian clothing – and the material, economic, scientific and cultural forces driving those trends – situating the texts in the pressing social anxieties and pleasures of the time. Exploring both menswear and womenswear, and key topics such as corsetry, dress reform and mourning, Mitchell extends her analysis into interdisciplinary fields including gender studies and literature, and guides the reader with a timeline, glossary and further readings.

Author : Jayne Shrimpton
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747815082
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Fashion written by Jayne Shrimpton and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets, and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk fashions. This is no surprise, as nineteenth-century clothing was so wide-ranging and decorative. We might unfairly think gentlemen's costume to be rather plain and uniform, but this is more by contrast to the overwhelming ostentation, luxury fabrics, fine accessories, and constantly evolving silhouettes of ladies' fashion. This colorful introduction to what the Victorians wore describes the vibrant, fancy materials and lace edging at one end of the spectrum, and the tightlaced sobriety of mourning apparel at the other. It examines both high fashion imports from Paris and more modest everyday wear, evening costume, bridal styles, children's clothes and sportswear, and explores the social and cultural backdrop to clothing in Britain's great age of industry and empire.

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350023418
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashioning the Victorians written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion, taking us from corsets to crinolines, dandies to decadent 'New Women'. A user-friendly collection that provides a solid grounding in the fashion history of the nineteenth century, it brings together for the first time sources that trace the evolution of dress and the social, cultural and political discourses that influenced it. Featuring seminal writings by authors and commentators such as Oscar Wilde, Thorstein Veblen and Sarah Stickney Ellis, plus satirical cartoons, illustrations and fashion plates from key sources such as Punch magazine, it combines primary texts and illustrations with accessible explanatory notes to offer a wide-ranging overview of the period for both students and researchers. Each section opens with an introduction that examines the major trends in Victorian clothing – and the material, economic, scientific and cultural forces driving those trends – situating the texts in the pressing social anxieties and pleasures of the time. Exploring both menswear and womenswear, and key topics such as corsetry, dress reform and mourning, Mitchell extends her analysis into interdisciplinary fields including gender studies and literature, and guides the reader with a timeline, glossary and further readings.

Author : Fiona Kay
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399004190
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Fashions for Women written by Fiona Kay and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Fashions for Women explores the British styles and clothing throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria, from the late 1830s to the first years of the 20th century. Within are a superb overview of the dresses, hats, hair styles, corsetry, undergarments shoes and boots that combined to present the prevailing styles for each decade. From those who had enough money to have day and evening wear and clothes for sports and outdoor activities, to those with limited income and wardrobes or labouring folk with little more than the clothes they stood up in. All decades are illustrated with original photographs, adverts and contemporary magazine features from the authors' own remarkable collections, accompanied by a knowledgeable and informative text that describes the fashions, their social history context and influences reflected in the clothes of the time. Laid out in a clear and easy-to-follow chronological order, the key features of styles, decoration and accoutrements will help family historians to date family photographs and will provide a useful resource for students and costume historians or for anyone with a love of fashion and style to enjoy.

Author : Kristina Harris
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486137899
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Fashion in America written by Kristina Harris and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage photographs depict girls playing dress-up in their mothers' clothes, a boy dressed in Little Lord Fauntleroy style, and scores of other representative portraits. Captions.

Author : Otto Charles Thieme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Grace & Favour written by Otto Charles Thieme and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Goodman
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241958342
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to be a Victorian written by Ruth Goodman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMAN We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink beer for breakfast and clean your teeth with cuttlefish? Catch the omnibus to work and do the laundry in your corset? How to be a Victorian is a radical new approach to history; a journey back in time more personal than anything before, illuminating the overlapping worlds of health, sex, fashion, food, school, work and play. Surviving everyday life came down to the gritty details, the small necessities and tricks of living and this book will show you how. ______________________ 'Goodman skilfully creates a portrait of daily Victorian life with accessible, compelling, and deeply sensory prose' Erin Entrada Kelly 'We're lucky to have such a knowledgeable cicerone as Ruth Goodman . . . Revelatory' Alexandra Kimball 'Goodman's research is impeccable . . . taking the reader through an average day and presenting the oddities of life without condescension' Patricia Hagen

Author : JoAnne Olian
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486404844
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Full-color Victorian Fashions, 1870-1893 written by JoAnne Olian and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 52 extremely rare plates depict the latest in chic apparel for the well-to-do, including elegant day dresses, hunting outfits, ornamented costumes for the theatre, a parade of millinery styles, and more.

Author : Kristina Harris
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048613282X
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authentic Victorian Fashion Patterns written by Kristina Harris and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich selection of dressmakers' patterns from popular, late-19th-century magazine The Voice of Fashion includes 50 garments for women, from day and evening dresses to tennis outfits and undergarments. 498 illustrations.

Author : Jennifer Ruby
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorians written by Jennifer Ruby and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the members of a Victorian family, their servants, and others to show the fashions of the day.