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

Author/creator Hiner, Susan
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
Descriptionviii, 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 25 cm
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Portion of title Women, fashion, and work in 19th-century France
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Issued in other formElectronic version: Hiner, Susan. Behind the Seams. 1st ed. London : Hart Publishing, 2023 9781350339835
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