Dressing Modern Frenchwomen: Marketing Haute Couture, 1919-1939

by Mary Lynn Stewart

Book Overview

At a glance, high fashion and feminism seem unlikely partners. Between the First and Second World Wars, however, these forces combined femininity and modernity to create the new, modern French woman. In this engaging study, Mary Lynn Stewart reveals the fashion industry as an integral part of women's transition into modernity.

Analyzing what female columnists in fashion magazines and popular women novelists wrote about the "new silhouette,"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801888034
• ISBN13: 9780801888038
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"