Everyday Fashion (eBook, ePUB)

Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600
Redaktion: Bide, Bethan; Tregenza, Liz; Halbert, Jade

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and the luxurious, Everyday Fashion makes the case that your grandmother's wardrobe is an archive as interesting and important as any museum store. From the moment we wake and get dressed in the morning until we get undressed again in the evening, fashion is a central medium through which we experience the world and negotiate our place within it. Because of this, the ways that supposedly 'ordinary' and 'everyday' fashion objects have been designed, manufactured, worn, cared for, and remembered matters deeply to our historical understanding.

Beginning at 1550 - the start of an era during which the word 'fashion' came to mean stylistic change rather than the act of making - each chapter explores the definition of everyday fashion and how this has changed over time, demonstrating innovative methodologies for researching the everyday. The variety and significance of everyday fashion cultures are further highlighted by a series of illustrated object biographies written by Britain's leading fashion curators, showcasing the rich diversity of everyday fashion in British museum collections. Collectively, this volume scratches below the glossy surface of fashion to expose the mechanics of fashion business, the hidden world of the workroom and the diversity and role of makers; and the experiences of consuming, wearing, and caring for ordinary clothes in the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present day. In doing so it challenges readers to rethink how fashion systems evolve and to reassess the boundaries between fashion and dress scholarship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350232471
• Artikelnr.: 69028861

Autorenporträt

Bethan Bide is Lecturer in Design and Cultural Theory at the University of Leeds. She is a design historian with a particular interest in fashion cities, the production and consumption of ready-to-wear clothing, and the role of fashion in museums. Bethan previously worked as a producer of comedy programmes for BBC Radio 4. Jade Halbert is Lecturer in Design Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. She is a historian of the fashion industry and has published on black economies, cultural economies of knitting, and the treatment of dressmakers in the 19th century. She was an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker in 2019. Liz Tregenza is a fashion and business historian. She is currently a lecturer at London College of Fashion and a Business of Fashion, Textiles and Technology Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK. Liz also runs her own vintage business and has written two books on vintage fashion.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgments 1.
Introduction: Negotiating the Everyday Bethan Bide, Jade Halbert and Liz
Tregenza 2. Counterfeit Fashion: An Eighteenth-Century Printed Silk
Handkerchief John Styles Part I: Approaches to the Study of Everyday
Fashion 3. Whalebone and Fashion in Seventeenth Century England: Changing
Consumer Culture, Trade and Innovation Sarah Bendall 4. Sophie Rabin's
Blouse Lucie Whitmore 5. 'In Want of a Capable Woman': Rediscovering Blouse
Designers in the Wholesale, Ready-Made Trade in Britain Through Material
Culture (1909-1920) Suzanne Rowland 6. Wartime Swimwear Ciara Phipps 7.
Fading From View: Using Postcard Photographs to Reveal the Market for
Female Workwear During the First World War Jenny Richardson 8. Rosetta
Rowley's Wedding Suit, 1952 Natalie Raw 9. Making Clothes for the Older
Woman: Post-War Pattern Cutting and Dressmaking Home Instruction in Britain
Hannah Wroe 10. A Printed Summer Dress, c.1930-32 Pauline Rushton 11. Oral
History and Everyday Fashion Jade Halbert 12. Bryan's Shoes Beatrice Behlen
13. A Pocket History: Interpreting Wearer Biography in the Francis Golding
Collection Cyana Madsen 14. Aprons Lou Taylor 15. Learning Through Wear:
Experiencing the Everyday Vintage Wardrobe Liz Tregenza Part II: Everyday
Fashion in Practice 16. The Fabled Chintz: Global Entanglement and South
Asian Agency in Everyday British Fashion, 1600-1800 Aditi Khare 17. Henry
Wardell's Flannel Waistcoat Hilary Davidson 18. The Everyday in
Eighteenth-Century Women's Sartorial Life-Writing Serena Dyer 19. An Open
Robe Gown Vanessa Jones 20. Accidental Remainders: Working Men's Fashion
c.1730-1880 in National Museums Scotland Emily Taylor 21. A Victorian
Best-Day Wedding Dress Rebecca Quinton 22. 'Fustian Jackets, Unshorn Chins,
Blistered Hands': Fabric and Political Feeling in the Chartist Movement,
1837-1848 Vic Clarke 23. Dr Fairweather's 'Apterna' Progressive Shoes Ruth
Battersby Tooke 24. 'They go around the country making in the homes of the
people': Travelling Tailors and Shoemakers and the Production of Everyday
Clothing in Rural Ireland, c.1850-1914 Eliza McKee 25. Tailor's Drawing
Book, 1915 Elen Phillips 26. I Am an Ordinary Man: Getting and Wearing
Suits in Britain 1945-1980 Danielle Sprecher 27. Two-Piece Skirt Suit;
Alexon Youngset by Alannah Tandy c.1970-1973 Shelley Tobin 28. À la Mode in
Maesteg: The Fashion Cultures of South Wales Garment Factories, 1945-1965
Bethan Bide 29. WVS Uniform Dress Valerie Wilson 30. Wholesaling and
Everyday Fashion in the Black Country Jenny Gilbert 31. An Old Pair of
Jeans Rebecca Unsworth 32. To Dance in my Shoes: Music and the
Psychological Influences of Style Choices in the London Caribbean Diaspora,
from Lovers' Rock to Grime Rianna Norbert-David 33. A Tootal Paisley Scarf
Christopher Breward 34. Conclusion: Common Threads Bethan Bide, Jade
Halbert and Liz Tregenza Index