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Forbidden Fashions - Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents (Hardcover)
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Forbidden Fashions - Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents (Hardcover)
Series: Costume Society of America
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Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled
shoes, make up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a
contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and
accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some
thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were
the norm.
Often locked in convents without any religious calling--simply to
save their parents the expense of their dowry--these involuntary
nuns relied on the symbolic meaning of secular clothes, fabrics,
and colors to rebel against the rules and prescriptions of
conventual life and to define roles and social status inside
monastic society.
Calling upon mountains of archival documents, most of which have
never been seen in print, "Forbidden Fashions" is the first book to
focus specifically upon the dress of nuns in Venetian convents and
offers new perspective on the intersection of dress and the city's
social and economic history.
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