Behind the seams : women, fashion, and work in 19th-century France / Susan Hiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiner, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing trade--France--History--19th century.

Clothing trade.

Women fashion designers--France--History--19th century.

Women fashion designers.

Fashion--France--History--19th century.

Fashion.

France--History--19th century.

France.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Women, fashion, and work in 19th-century France

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

Summary:

"In this highly original book, Susan Hiner looks behind fashion's seams and focuses on the women fashion producers - both working- and middle-class -- who were key to shaping the French fashion economy. Behind the seams thus opens up the fields of both fashion and French cultural studies and explores new ways of understanding the 19th centry by demonstrating that these women's complex and contradictory roles as producers of luxury items left them exploited by an oppressive fashion system even as they served as influencers within it."-- Supplied by publisher.

Contents:

Veiling women's work

Fashion's fingers: immodest Modistes

Fasion's voices: "Modistes des Lettres"

Fashion's eyes: painting in the mirror

Epilogue: Midinettes in motion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Hiner, Susan. Behind the Seams.

ISBN:

1350339792

9781350339798

1350339806

9781350339804

OCLC:

1374244447

Publisher Number:

99995038903