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A Revolutionary Decade: Fasion & Material Culture in the 1790s
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SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: The importance of the body in fashion and the radical adoption of street styles by the elite go back to eighteenth-century Europe. This study examines the effects of the French Revolution on European and American style. It asks how 1790s fashion drastically changed to affect and reflect the social order. During this revolutionary decade, clothing was implicated in the changing political, artistic and ideological landscapes of Europe. As people searched for new systems of government, the meaning of dress in France took on additional importance. The research will thus begin in France and expand to places traditionally affected by French style: the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Canada. Finding, accessing and analyzing surviving clothing and depictions of dress such as portraits and fashion plates from the 1790s will allow us to understand the journey towards more democratic and body-conscious styles.
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- Date created
- 2016-10-13
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- Fashion, Neoclassical
- Street Style
- Design
- Gender
- Material Culture
- Eighteenth Century
- United States
- 1860-2016
- 1700-1814
- French Revolution
- History
- Europe
- Successful SSHRC
- France
- Textile
- 1790
- Dress
- IG
- Caribbean
- United Kingdom
- Industrial and Technological Development
- Fashion Studies
- Arts and Culture
- Canada
- Federalist Era
- Artefact
- Fashion, French
- 2017
- Fashion, Street
- Visual Arts
- Body
- Human Ecology
- Insight Grant
- North America
- Germany
- Representation
- 18th Century
- 1790
- France
- North America
- Caribbean
- United Kingdom
- Western Europe
- Germany
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- Type of Item
- Research Material
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- License
- © Bissonette, Anne. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2025.