Fashioning the Early Modern

Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2017
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
9780198738176 (ISBN)

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This book explores the ways in which men, women, state industries, guilds and entrepreneurs in early modern Europe created, innovated, and promoted new textiles, novel products, and unusual forms of dress. Challenging conventional explanations, it demonstrates the complexity of the relationships that made fashions successful.

How did fashion work in Europe before modern media? Why were beards suddenly stylish after 1500? Why did the ruff come in and out of use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Why did men from Spain to Sweden suddenly decide to adopt wigs around 1660 only to drop them less than fifty years later? How did manufacturers and merchants encourage and then respond to changing demands for colourful printed patterns and new cuts and styles of tailoring in the
seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries? As importantly, why were others unsuccessful in terms of their cross-European adoption? This book explores the ways in which men, women, state industries, guilds and entrepreneurs in early modern Europe created, innovated and promoted new textiles, novel products and unusual forms of dress. Challenging conventional explanations that explain fashion as spreading from the court elite downwards, it demonstrates the complexity of the relationships that made fashions
successful.

Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the History Department at King's College London. A specialist in Renaissance and Early Modern history and its material remains, she has published extensively on Italian and European consumption practices. She is the author of Shopping in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2005) which won the Wolfson Prize for History and, with Dr James Shaw, Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence (Rodopi Press, 2011). Between 2009- and 2012, Professor Welch led the Humanities in the European Research Area project, Fashioning the Early Modern: Creativity and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800.

I: INNOVATION; II: REPUTATION AND DISSEMINATION

Erscheinungsdatum	25.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Pasold Studies in Textile History ; 18
Zusatzinfo	Colour illustrations throughout
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 242 mm
Gewicht	1180 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-13	9780198738176 / 9780198738176
Zustand	Neuware