Accessories to modernity : fashion and the feminine in nineteenth-century France /

Accessories to modernity : fashion and the feminine in nineteenth-century France / Susan Hiner.

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Examining fashion accessories in both novels and fashion discourses, Susan Hiner reframes the feminine accessory as a signifier of modernity and makes an important claim about the "accessory" status of women in nineteenth-century France: as both commodities and consumers, women were in fac...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hiner, Susan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer.
Subjects:
Women > France > History > 19th century.
Clothing and dress > France > History > 19th century.
Fashion > France > History > 19th century.
Clothing and dress.
Fashion.
Manners and customs.
Women.
France > Social life and customs > 19th century.
France.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • La Femme comme il (en) faut and the pursuit of distinction
  • Unpacking the Corbeille de mariage
  • "Cashmere fever": virtue and the domestication of the exotic
  • Mademoiselle Ombrelle: shielding the fair sex
  • Fan fetish: gender, nostalgia, and commodification
  • Between good intentions and ulterior motives: the culture of handbags
  • Epilogue. The feminine accessory.

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