Canadian Fashion Economies : A Select History of Fashion Culture, Commerce, and Colonization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Connell, Mark Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--History--Canada.

Clothing and dress.

Clothing trade--History--Canada.

Clothing trade.

Fashion--History--Canada.

Fashion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

A rich and vital re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history, told through key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial settlers, and contemporary Canadian culture.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Contents

List of Figures

Preface: A Viking Prelude

1 Introduction: 'Every Moment is Two Moments'

Literature review of Canadian fashion history

Methods: A qualitative, object-based research methodology

Theoretical frameworks

Material evidence

2 Canadian Couture? Tsimshian and Tlingit Weaving of the Chilkat

Introduction

American Museum of Natural History, NYC

Chilkat blankets

Weaver marks

Potlatch

Potlatch ban

Conclusion: In a Canadian 'fashion'

3 The Fur Trade in Early Colonial Canada: The Beaver Hat, Driver of Colonial Expansion

The allure of the north

Fathers of Confederation

Top hat research

Beaver hat history

Hat manufacture

Fur trade economy

Pre-colonial First Nations

Commodity exchange in the Iron Age

First Nations trade economy

Beaver fur economies

Coureurs de bois and voyageurs

The Compagnie des Cent-Associés

Fur trade issues

Dangling a mercury carrot

Conclusion

4 The HBC Blanket Coat, New Material for New Worlds

Introduction: An alternative Canadian fashion history wrapped up in a blanket coat

The HBC coat

Blanket coat physical analysis

Blanket trade and the HBC in Canada

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland

Organizational management

Company sovereigns

Blankets and strouds

Heavy material borrowing: From blanket to coat

Capote

Canadian sport blanket coat

Ceinture fléchée

Plague blanket

Conclusion: 'Peculiar tendencies'

5 Fugitive Pieces, Quilted Memories and Ribbon Skirts

Introduction: Useful and beautiful

Object: Quilt

Clothing a new France

L'Acadie

In an Upper Canadian colonial fashion

Marie-Antoinette and Marie Marguerite Rose

Ribbon skirts

6 Colonial Communications and Visitors to the Colony

Colonial communications.

Object: Religious embroideries

History of the Quebecoise Ursulines: Femmes fortes, Amazons, and Jesuitesses

Conversion through craft

Francisation, Frenchify

Pehr Kalm and habitant dress in the 1700s

John Lambert on Canadian fashion in the 1800s

'Rich even to gorgeousness': 'Ladies Companion' journals for Canadian colonial women

They can all crochet however …

Colonia

7 The North Star

Two moments

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

1-350-35739-1

1-350-35737-5

OCLC:

1534808341