Fashioning the Early Modern: Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800 by Welch, Evelyn

Fashioning the Early Modern: Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800

How did fashion work in Europe before modern media? Why were beards suddenly stylish after 1500? Why...
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Author: Evelyn Welch
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Fashioning the Early Modern: Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800 by Welch, Evelyn

Fashioning the Early Modern: Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800

CHF 177.98

Fashioning the Early Modern: Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800

CHF 177.98
Author: Evelyn Welch
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.


Author: Evelyn Welch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/16/2017
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.65lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780198738176


Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2017

About the Author

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 which won the Wolfson Prize for History and, with Dr James Shaw, Making and Marketing Medicine in Renaissance Florence. 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.

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