Download or read book The Relationship of the American Parlor Social Etiquette and the Iconography of Dress as Seen in Art in the Nineteenth Century written by Natalie M. VanOverbeke and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines scenes of women in art and literature in their homes in late nineteenth-century America using dress as a mode of communication employed by women to engage the issues of social relationships, class structure, and behavior. Through the analysis of the role that etiquette played in the daily rituals of American women in the years between 1870 and 1900, as evidenced in nineteenth-century etiquette books and other primary sources, reveals the way that dress was used to negotiate the boundaries of social interaction. Fashion plates offer insight to the importance of owning and wearing gowns that conformed to the current fashionable silhouettes, color, and materials as a tool for social positioning and advancement. Also, an in-depth analysis of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920) provides the perspective of an author who lived and worked in the domestic spaces in question. This multi-faceted examination reveals that a woman's clothing could display and determine her relationships to others in multiple ways. These primary sources provide a foundation and a context for the analysis of visual and material culture, as represented in works by Mary Cassatt and others that illustrate common conventional social behavior. The parlor serves as the stage for the performance of these rituals. By reexamining scenes of women at home against the backdrop of conventional etiquette and social expectation, the elements of dress can be translated into a language that can illuminate how dress not only clothed a woman, but also served as a tool to accomplish a woman's social aspirations, such as forging her reputation, securing a place in society, and enjoying the privileges reserved for a member of an elite class. The thesis concludes with a documentary analysis of the rituals and dress of Mrs. Frances Glessner, a Chicago woman who lived in this period, so as to tie together the examples from literature, art, and fashion and allow them to be tested against the actual circumstances of an historic figure who successfully navigated the challenges of society using her parlor and her own distinctive interpretation of the dress code to forge her position in an established social circle.
Download or read book Pantaloons Power written by Gayle V. Fischer and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing is often an indication of an individual's status, and gender. By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men's style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women's fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. This visible separation of the sexes was paralleled in other arenas - social, cultural, and religions. Some women defied this convention and cut their skirts short, abandoned their corsets, and put on trousers. In Pantaloons and Power Gayle V. Fisher shows how the reformers' denouncement of conventional dress highlighted the role of clothing in the struggle of power relations between the sexes.
Download or read book Modes Manners of the Nineteenth Century as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time written by Max von Boehn and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decorum written by S. L. Louis and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Fashion Nation written by Sandra Tomc and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful look at the relationship between ethnic nationalism and gaudy dress in the early 19th-century United States
Download or read book Modes Manners of the Nineteenth Century as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time written by Max von Boehn and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modes And Manners Of The Nineteenth Century written by Max Von Boehn and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating volume examines the social and cultural norms of the 19th century through the lens of fashion and etiquette. With a wealth of illustrations and photographs, the book offers readers a glimpse into the world of Victorian society and the changing attitudes of the era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Modes Manners of the Nineteenth Century as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time written by Max von Boehn and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manners Culture and Dress of the Best American Society 1891 written by Richard Alfred Wells and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Decorum written by J. A. Ruth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Decorum: A Practical Treatise on Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society Nature is always graceful; fashion, with all her art and glitter can never produce anything half so pleas ing. The very perfection of elegance is to imitate nature; how much better to have the reality than the imitation. Anxiety about the opinions of others always fetters our freedom and tends to awkwardness. We would always appear well if we never tried to assume what we do not possess. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Manners Culture and Dress of the Best American Society written by Richard a Wells and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Appropriate ing Dress written by Carol Mattingly and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattingly (U. of Louisville) has written extensively about women's history. Women in 19th-century America, she says, were identified as feminine primarily by their dress and location. She explores how women speakers used appearance to negotiate expectations restricting them to limited locations and excluding them from public rhetoric. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Early American Dress written by Edward Warwick and published by New York, B. Blom 1965. This book was released on 1965 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly two hundred portraits and hundreds of drawings highlight a study of styles of clothing worn by men, women, and children in colonial and Revolutionary America.
Download or read book Dress in American Culture written by Patricia Anne Cunningham and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing is viewed as a mediating factor in the American experience. The authors of these essays reveal the politics, or power of dress, especially in its function as a symbol of American ideals, and examine changes in clothing behavior which occurred as Americans faced a variety of new experiences.
Download or read book Fashioning the Nineteenth Century written by Cristina Giorcelli and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, fashion—once the province of the well-to-do—began to make its way across class lines. At once a democratizing influence and a means of maintaining distinctions, gaps in time remained between what the upper classes wore and what the lower classes later copied. And toward the end of the century, style also moved from the streets to the parlor. The third in a four-part series charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing, dress, and accessories, Fashioning the Nineteenth Century focuses on this transformative period in an effort to show how certain items of apparel acquired the status of fashion and how fashion shifted from the realm of the elites into the emerging middle and working classes—and back. The contributors to this volume are leading scholars from France, Italy, and the United States, as well as a practicing psychoanalyst and artists working in fashion and with textiles. Whether considering girls’ school uniforms in provincial Italy, widows’ mourning caps in Victorian novels, Charlie’s varying dress in Kate Chopin’s eponymous story, or the language of clothing in Henry James, the essays reveal how changes in ideals of the body and its adornment, in classes and nations, created what we now understand to be the imperatives of fashion. Contributors: Dagni Bredesen, Eastern Illinois U; Carmela Covato, U of Rome Three; Agnès Derail-Imbert, École Normale Supérieure/VALE U of Paris, Sorbonne; Clair Hughes, International Christian University of Tokyo; Bianca Iaccarino Idelson; Beryl Korot; Anna Masotti; Bruno Monfort, Université of Paris, Ouest Nanterre La Défense; Giuseppe Nori, U of Macerata, Italy; Marta Savini, U of Rome Three; Anna Scacchi, U of Padua; Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, U of Michigan.
Download or read book The Rutgers Art Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Dress as Social History written by Costume Society of America. Meeting and Symposium and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
