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Ruane, Christine.
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Clothing and dress -- Russia -- History.
Clothing trade -- Russia -- History.
Russia -- History -- 1613-1917.
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Ruane, Christine.
Clothing and dress -- Russia -- History.
Clothing trade -- Russia -- History.
Russia -- History -- 1613-1917.
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The empire's new clothes : a history of the Russian fashion industry, 1700-1917 / Christine Ruane.
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Ruane, Christine.
Yale University Press, c2009.
Call #:
391
.00947
R894e
Subjects
Clothing and dress -- Russia -- History.
Clothing trade -- Russia -- History.
Russia -- History -- 1613-1917.
ISBN:
9780300141559 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0300141556 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Description:
xii, 276 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Fashion and Ethnicity -- Fashion and Social Status -- Fashion and Gender -- Fashion and Capitalism -- 1. The Emperor's New Clothes: The Creation of a Fashion Industry -- 2. The Gendering of Sewing in Russia -- 3. The Rise of Ready-to-Wear -- 4. The Fashion Press in Imperial Russia -- 5. Clothes Shopping in Imperial Russia -- 6. Adorned in Dreams: Clothing and National Identity -- 7. Adorned in Dreams: Fashion, Labor, and Politics.
Summary:
"This book explores the impact of Westernization on Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and presents a wealth of photographs of ordinary Russians in all their finery. Christine Ruane draws on memoirs, mail-order catalogues, fashion magazines, and other period sources to demonstrate that Russia's adoption of western fashion had symbolic, political, and social ramifications and was inseparably linked to the development of capitalism, industrial production, and new forms of communication. This book shows how the fashion industry became a forum through which Russians debated and formed a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
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