Book description
The connection between fashion, femininity, frivolity and Frenchness has become a cliche. Yet, relegating fashion to the realm of frivolity and femininity is a distinctly modern belief that developed along with the urban culture of the Enlightenment. In eighteenth-century France, a commercial culture filled with shop girls, fashion magazines andā¦
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A major divergence in the nature of elite men's and womenās clothing styles took place in the eighteenth century that symbolized a new understanding of both femininity and French national identity. The fancy dress men wore at court transformed into the sober black suit of the male professional, while womenās clothing became increasingly ornate, fussy, and āfeminineā in the modern understanding of the term. Jones links fashion and gender systems to social, cultural, and economic practicesāincluding the rise of consumer cultureāand demonstrates why the study of fashion and sexuality are far from frivolous.
From Christine's list on the beauty and the politics of fashion.
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