How did fashion work in Europe before modern media? Why were beards suddenly stylish after 1500? Why did the ruff come in and out of use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why did men from Spain to Sweden suddenly decide to adopt wigs around 1660 only to drop them less than fifty years later? How did manufacturers and merchants encourage and then respond to changing demands for colourful printed patterns and new cuts and styles of tailoring in the
seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries? As importantly, why were others unsuccessful in terms of their cross-European adoption? This book explores the ways in which men, women, state industries, guilds and entrepreneurs in early modern Europe created, innovated and promoted new textiles, novel products and unusual forms of dress. Challenging conventional explanations that explain fashion as spreading from the court elite downwards, it demonstrates the complexity of the relationships that made fashions
successful.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Overall, changing styles are interpreted in front of a wide continental backdrop of politics, law, religion, trade, science, and technology. Useful bibliography of 41 pages of primary/secondary sources and unpublished papers....Highly recommended. * B.B. Chico, CHOICE * It is rare to find an edited volume of such consistently high caliber across its contributions. ... The high-quality production of the volume - with its generous colour illustrations of portraits and genre paintings, furniture and decorative objects, fashion albus and sample fabric books, individual garments and accessories - brings this point home, beautifully evoking the materiality of early modern fashion * Laura R. Bass, Bulletin of the Comediantes * Important and original volume...Fashioning the Early Modern is beautifully illustrated and offers a wide geographical range. * Ulinka Rublack, Times Literary Supplement * [The book] offers a welcome variety of approaches to the history of dress and textiles. It is hoped [it may] now encourage future research into the cultural anthropology of human clothing, an area that has yet to be fully integrated into the study of the history of dress. * Jane Bridgeman, The Art Newspaper *
Reihe
Sprache
Verlagsort
Illustrationen
Colour illustrations throughout
Maße
Höhe: 242 mm
Breite: 163 mm
Dicke: 32 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-19-873817-6 (9780198738176)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the History Department at King's College London. A specialist in Renaissance and Early Modern history and its material remains, she has published extensively on Italian and European consumption practices. She is the author of Shopping in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2005) which won the Wolfson Prize for History and, with Dr James Shaw, Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence (Rodopi Press,
2011). Between 2009- and 2012, Professor Welch led the Humanities in the European Research Area project, Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800.
Herausgeber*in
Professor of Renaissance StudiesProfessor of Renaissance Studies, King's College London
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