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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philippe Perrot |
ISBN: | 0691033838 9780691033839 0691000816 9780691000817 |
OCLC Number: | 36749964 |
Notes: | "Second printing and first paperback printing, 1996." |
Description: | xiii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Toward a history of appearances -- Clothing's old and new regimes -- The vestimentary landscape of the nineteenth century -- Traditional trades and the rise of ready-made clothing -- The department store and the spread of bourgeois clothing -- New pretentions, new distinctions -- The imperatives of propriety -- Deviation from the norm -- Invisible clothing -- The circulation of fashions -- Conclusion. |
Other Titles: | Dessus et les dessous de la bourgeoisie. |
Responsibility: | by Philippe Perrot ; translated by Richard Bienvenu. |
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"A fascinating and amusing examination of social attitudes."--The Times Literary Supplement "The overall thesis that emerges is both limpid and profound; as far as clothing is concerned, we still belong to the nineteenth century."--Liberation "[Perrot] glides through the dressing rooms and bedrooms of the Second Empire, inspects armoires, haunts the department stores and the fitting rooms of couturiers and tailors, lives with fashionable women and tarts, bankers, and 10-franc-a-month shop assistants."--Le Nouvel observateur "Perrot puts a serious and persuasive case for the importance of clothing to understanding the aesthetic and moral values of the nineteenth-century middle-class... Immensely learned, yet written with great delicacy and lightness of touch, it remains the best account available of the meaning, and eventual triumph, of the bourgeois trouser--that most resilient and universal survival of nineteenth-century Europe's dominance of the globe."--John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph "A fascinating book: not so much a history of clothing, as a history of French society seen through its fashions and its clothes."--Sharif Gemie, Modern & Contemporary France "Fashion history is not about hemlines, it is about the nuts and bolts of living. It is because he accepts this fact that Perrot's examination of a period so germane to our own is valuable."--Colin McDowell, Sunday Times (London) Read more...

