ISBN10: 0691000816, ISBN13: 9780691000817, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
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ISBN10: 0691000816, ISBN13: 9780691000817, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Explains a culture's sociology through the simple issue of the choice of clothing. This book shows, through a tour of the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in France, how clothing can not only reflect but also beliefs, values, and aspirations.
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ISBN10: 0691000816, ISBN13: 9780691000817, [publisher: Princeton University Press 1997-01-23, Princeton] Softcover Language: ENG
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Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 1996. Paperback. New. 273 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. 1996. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691000816 9780691000817 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691000816, ISBN13: 9780691000817, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 273 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 0691000816, ISBN13: 9780691000817, [publisher: Princeton University Press 12/29/1996] Softcover Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century 0.96
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ISBN10: 0691000816, ISBN13: 9780691000817, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - When department stores like Le Bon Marché first opened their doors in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, shoppers were offered more than racks of ready-made frock coats and crinolines. They were given the chance to acquire a lifestyle as well--that of the bourgeoisie. Wearing proper clothing encouraged proper behavior, went the prevailing belief.Available now for the first time in English, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie was one of the first extensive studies to explain a culture's sociology through the seemingly simple issue of the choice of clothing. Philippe Perrot shows, through a delightful tour of the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in France, how clothing can not only reflect but also inculcate beliefs, values, and aspirations. By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce. Their wives and daughters, on the other hand, adorned themselves in bright colors and often uncomfortable and impractical laces and petticoats, to signal the status of their family. The consumer pastime of shopping was born, as women spent their spare hours keeping up their middle-class appearance, or creating one by judicious purchases.As Paris became the fashion ...
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ISBN10: 0691000816, ISBN13: 9780691000817, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 273 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]

ISBN10: 0691000816, ISBN13: 9780691000817, [publisher: Princeton University Press, New Jersey] Softcover Paperback. When department stores like Le Bon Marche first opened their doors in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, shoppers were offered more than racks of ready-made frock coats and crinolines. They were given the chance to acquire a lifestyle as well--that of the bourgeoisie. Wearing proper clothing encouraged proper behavior, went the prevailing belief. Available now for the first time in English, Fashioning the Bourgeoisie was one of the first extensive studies to explain a culture's sociology through the seemingly simple issue of the choice of clothing. Philippe Perrot shows, through a delightful tour of the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in France, how clothing can not only reflect but also inculcate beliefs, values, and aspirations. By the middle of the century, men were prompted to disdain the decadent and gaudy colors of the pre-Revolutionary period and wear unrelievedly black frock coats suitable to the manly and serious world of commerce. Their wives and daughters, on the other hand, adorned themselves in bright colors and often uncomfortable and impractical laces and petticoats, to signal the status of their family.The consumer pastime of shopping was born, as women spent their spare hours keeping up their middle-class appearance, or creating one by judicious purchases.As Paris became the fashion capital and bourgeois modes of dress and ...

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