Fashioning the Bourgeoisie by Philippe Perrot
This study explains a culture's sociology through the seemingly simple issue of the choice of clothing. Philippe Perrot shows, through a tour of the rise of the ready-made fashion industry in France, how clothing not only reflects but also inculcates beliefs, values and aspirations.
"A fascinating and amusing examination of social attitudes" * The Times Literary Supplement *
"The overall thesis that emerges is both limpid and profound; as far as clothing is concerned, we still belong to the nineteenth century." * Libération *
"[Perrot] glides through the dressing rooms and bedrooms of the Second Empire, inspects armoires, haunts the department stores and the fitting rooms of couturiers and tailors, lives with fashionable women and tarts, bankers, and 10-franc-a-month shop assistants." * Le Nouvel observateur *
"Perrot puts a serious and persuasive case for the importance of clothing to understanding the aesthetic and moral values of the nineteenth-century middle-class. . . . Immensely learned, yet written with great delicacy and lightness of touch, it remains the best account available of the meaning, and eventual triumph, of the bourgeois trouser--that most resilient and universal survival of nineteenth-century Europe's dominance of the globe."---John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph
"A fascinating book: not so much a history of clothing, as a history of French society seen through its fashions and its clothes."---Sharif Gemie, Modern & Contemporary France
"Fashion history is not about hemlines, it is about the nuts and bolts of living. It is because he accepts this fact that Perrot's examination of a period so germane to our own is valuable."---Colin McDowell, Sunday Times
"The overall thesis that emerges is both limpid and profound; as far as clothing is concerned, we still belong to the nineteenth century." * Libération *
"[Perrot] glides through the dressing rooms and bedrooms of the Second Empire, inspects armoires, haunts the department stores and the fitting rooms of couturiers and tailors, lives with fashionable women and tarts, bankers, and 10-franc-a-month shop assistants." * Le Nouvel observateur *
"Perrot puts a serious and persuasive case for the importance of clothing to understanding the aesthetic and moral values of the nineteenth-century middle-class. . . . Immensely learned, yet written with great delicacy and lightness of touch, it remains the best account available of the meaning, and eventual triumph, of the bourgeois trouser--that most resilient and universal survival of nineteenth-century Europe's dominance of the globe."---John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph
"A fascinating book: not so much a history of clothing, as a history of French society seen through its fashions and its clothes."---Sharif Gemie, Modern & Contemporary France
"Fashion history is not about hemlines, it is about the nuts and bolts of living. It is because he accepts this fact that Perrot's examination of a period so germane to our own is valuable."---Colin McDowell, Sunday Times
Philippe Perrot is Chargè de Recherches at the Centre d'Etudes Transdisciplinaires de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Richard Bienvenu is Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691033839 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691033838 |
| Title | Fashioning the Bourgeoisie |
| Author | Philippe Perrot |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1994-06-16 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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