Sexing La Mode: Gender, Fashion and Commercial Culture in Old Regime France

by Jennifer M. Jones

Book Overview

The connection between fashion, femininity, frivolity and Frenchness has become a clich . Yet, relegating fashion to the realm of frivolity and femininity is a distinctly modern belief that developed along with the urban culture of the Enlightenment. In eighteenth-century France, a commercial culture filled with shop girls, fashion magazines and window displays began to supplant a court-based fashion culture based on rank and distinction, stimulating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859738303
• ISBN13: 9781859738306
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"