Refashioning the Renaissance
Everyday Dress in Europe, 1500-1650
Published on 28. January 2025
Book
Hardback
376 pages
978-1-5261-6465-0 (ISBN)
Description
How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and shopkeepers? Did they rely on affordable alternatives to the silks, jewellery and decorations favoured by the wealthy elite? Or did those with modest means find innovative ways to express their fashion sense?
This book provides new perspectives on early modern clothing and fashion history by investigating the consumption and meaning of fashionable clothing and accessories among the 'popular' classes. Through a close examination of the materials, craftsmanship and cultural significance of fashion items owned by and available to a broad group of consumers, it challenges conventional assumptions that the everyday dress of ordinary families was limited to a narrow selection of garments made of coarse textiles, often produced at home and resistant to change. -- .
This book provides new perspectives on early modern clothing and fashion history by investigating the consumption and meaning of fashionable clothing and accessories among the 'popular' classes. Through a close examination of the materials, craftsmanship and cultural significance of fashion items owned by and available to a broad group of consumers, it challenges conventional assumptions that the everyday dress of ordinary families was limited to a narrow selection of garments made of coarse textiles, often produced at home and resistant to change. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
111 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1124 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-6465-0 (9781526164650)
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Person
Paula Hohti is Professor of History of Art and Culture at Aalto University. -- .
Content
Introduction - Paula Hohti
Part I: Innovation and Imitation
1 Transformations in textiles, 1500-1750 - John Styles
2 Ribbon culture in early modern Italy - Andrea Caracausi
3 Imitation in early modern artisan fashion -Sophie Pitman
Experiment in focus I: imitation of fur - Sophie Pitman
Experiment in focus II: knitted stockings - Piia Lempiaeinen and Paula Hohti
Experiment in focus III: stamped mock-velvet doublet - Sophie Pitman
Part II: Adornment and display
4 Ne vera ne falsa: non-elite ownership of pearls in early modern Italy - Michele Nicole Robinson
5 Adorning the everyday: male artisan jewellery in early modern England - Natasha Awais-Dean
6 Dressed to kill: arms, armour and protective attire in Renaissance men's middle- and lower-class dress - Victoria Bartels
Experiment in focus IV: embodied experience of a tailor-made male doublet - Valerio Zanetti
Experiment in focus V: digital doublet - Maarit Kalmakurki
Experiment in focus VI: imitation of amber and pearls - Michele Nicole Robinson
Part III: Status and credibility
7 The dissemination of fashion: consumption habits and non-essential textile in early modern Italian artisan inventories - Stefania Montemezzo
8 Artisan attire and the politics of dress in seventeenth-century Tallinn - Astrid Wendel-Hansen
9 The clothing of the contadina: women's work, leisure and morality, 1550-1650 - Elizabeth Currie and Jordan Mitchell-King
10 Practical, professional and prosperous: dressing artisans and small shopkeepers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Denmark - Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen
Experiment in focus VII: caring for clothes - Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen
Experiment in focus VIII: colour - Paula Hohti
Experiment in focus IX: lace - Michele Nicole Robinson
Index -- .
Part I: Innovation and Imitation
1 Transformations in textiles, 1500-1750 - John Styles
2 Ribbon culture in early modern Italy - Andrea Caracausi
3 Imitation in early modern artisan fashion -Sophie Pitman
Experiment in focus I: imitation of fur - Sophie Pitman
Experiment in focus II: knitted stockings - Piia Lempiaeinen and Paula Hohti
Experiment in focus III: stamped mock-velvet doublet - Sophie Pitman
Part II: Adornment and display
4 Ne vera ne falsa: non-elite ownership of pearls in early modern Italy - Michele Nicole Robinson
5 Adorning the everyday: male artisan jewellery in early modern England - Natasha Awais-Dean
6 Dressed to kill: arms, armour and protective attire in Renaissance men's middle- and lower-class dress - Victoria Bartels
Experiment in focus IV: embodied experience of a tailor-made male doublet - Valerio Zanetti
Experiment in focus V: digital doublet - Maarit Kalmakurki
Experiment in focus VI: imitation of amber and pearls - Michele Nicole Robinson
Part III: Status and credibility
7 The dissemination of fashion: consumption habits and non-essential textile in early modern Italian artisan inventories - Stefania Montemezzo
8 Artisan attire and the politics of dress in seventeenth-century Tallinn - Astrid Wendel-Hansen
9 The clothing of the contadina: women's work, leisure and morality, 1550-1650 - Elizabeth Currie and Jordan Mitchell-King
10 Practical, professional and prosperous: dressing artisans and small shopkeepers in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Denmark - Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen
Experiment in focus VII: caring for clothes - Anne-Kristine Sindvald Larsen
Experiment in focus VIII: colour - Paula Hohti
Experiment in focus IX: lace - Michele Nicole Robinson
Index -- .