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Dressing up : the women who influenced French fashion
- Title
- Dressing up : the women who influenced French fashion / Elizabeth L. Block.
- Author
- Block, Elizabeth L.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- 282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "A provocative look at late 19th-century French fashion, which discredits the couturier as "genius creator" and makes you think differently about the impact of the American women who influenced the market"--
- Subjects
- Affluent consumers
- Women consumers
- Women's clothing industry
- Fashion
- United States
- History
- 1800-1918
- France
- Manners and customs
- United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918
- Affluent consumers > United States > History > 19th century
- Women consumers > United States > History > 19th century
- Women's clothing industry > France > History > 19th century
- Fashion > France > History > 19th century
- Fashion > United States > History > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Dressing up -- Midcentury tastemakers -- Connections among couturiers, hairdressers, milliners, and perfumers -- Couturiers and international expositions -- International clientele -- Maison Félix and its American clients -- Gowns and mansions : French fashion in American homes -- Escalating prices : the impact of American tariffs -- The underworld and afterlife of French couture in the United States -- Conclusion: Follow the dresses.
- Call Number
- JQE 21-957
- ISBN
- 9780262045841
- 0262045842
- LCCN
- 2020036772
- OCLC
- 1221015558
- Author
- Block, Elizabeth L., author.
- Title
- Dressing up : the women who influenced French fashion / Elizabeth L. Block.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1918
- Research Call Number
- JQE 21-957