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Victorian Fashion Accessories (Hardcover, New)
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Victorian Fashion Accessories (Hardcover, New)
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In Victorian England, women's accessories were always much more
than incidental finishing touches to their elaborate dress.
Accessories helped women to fashion their identities.Victorian
Fashion Accessories explores how women's use of gloves, parasols,
fans and vanity sets revealed their class, gender and colonial
aspirations. The colour and fit of a pair of gloves could help a
middle-class woman indicate her class aspirations.The sun filtering
through a rose-colored parasol would provide a woman of a certain
age with the glow of youth. The use of a fan was a socially
acceptable means of attracting interest and flirting.Even the
choice of vanity set on a woman's bedroom dresser reflected her
complicity with colonial expansion. By paying attention to the
particular details of women's accessories we discover the beliefs
embedded in these artefacts and enhance our understanding of the
culture at large. Beaujot's engaging prose illuminates the complex
identities of the women who used accessories in the Victorian
culture that created and consumed them. Victorian Fashion
Accessories is essential reading for students and scholars of,
history, gender studies, cultural studies, material culture and
fashion studies, as well as anyone interested in the history of
dress.
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