Add to ORKGIn the complex process of constructing, regulating and negotiating gender identities, the language of dress communicates messages of power and control. During the Victorian period, acceptable dress for middle-class women included wearing a long dress, corset, crinoline, petticoat, and heeled shoes. This was not a constant or fixed dress code however, and through various campaigns, attempts were made to reform women's dress. A study on change in dress, in particular, dress reform, reveals how boundaries of acceptable dress were constantly negotiated by various groups who employed clothing as a means to regulate gender, race and class. Yet, what were dress reform discourses? Who articulated them? What does dress reform reveal about gender and...
In 1851 a group of woman’s reformers adopted a radical garment called the bloomer costume and thus l...
The paper examines the relationship between late nineteenth century women, their freedom, and their ...
The distinctions between 'high' and 'low' dress in Victorian times are discussed with the elite conc...
The dress reform movements of the latter half of the nineteenth century were a group of unconnected ...
Unlaced: The Dress Reform Movement of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries examines the...
This thesis examines the changing representations of children and clothing by drawing upon textual, ...
This dissertation examines popular conceptions of heredity in Canada between 1860-1900. I focus on t...
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, women’s clothing in the United States embodied the soc...
This article draws on the writings, including diaries, letters, etiquette books, and popular fiction...
Like all manifestations of culture, the way in which children are clothed reflects the social attitu...
© 1999 Dr. Leigh SummersThere is perhaps no other garment so quintessentially Victorian as the corse...
The ‘bloomers’ are rarely considered beyond their 1851 origins in the United States and subsequent a...
Publikacja niniejsza, wpisująca się w nurt historii kobiecej i społecznej stanowi pierwsze w Polsce ...
This dissertation investigates the links between social and political life in Canada at the close of...
This article suggests that several social factors resulted in major changes infernale dress, towards...
In 1851 a group of woman’s reformers adopted a radical garment called the bloomer costume and thus l...
The paper examines the relationship between late nineteenth century women, their freedom, and their ...
The distinctions between 'high' and 'low' dress in Victorian times are discussed with the elite conc...
The dress reform movements of the latter half of the nineteenth century were a group of unconnected ...
Unlaced: The Dress Reform Movement of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries examines the...
This thesis examines the changing representations of children and clothing by drawing upon textual, ...
This dissertation examines popular conceptions of heredity in Canada between 1860-1900. I focus on t...
In the latter half of the nineteenth century, women’s clothing in the United States embodied the soc...
This article draws on the writings, including diaries, letters, etiquette books, and popular fiction...
Like all manifestations of culture, the way in which children are clothed reflects the social attitu...
© 1999 Dr. Leigh SummersThere is perhaps no other garment so quintessentially Victorian as the corse...
The ‘bloomers’ are rarely considered beyond their 1851 origins in the United States and subsequent a...
Publikacja niniejsza, wpisująca się w nurt historii kobiecej i społecznej stanowi pierwsze w Polsce ...
This dissertation investigates the links between social and political life in Canada at the close of...
This article suggests that several social factors resulted in major changes infernale dress, towards...
In 1851 a group of woman’s reformers adopted a radical garment called the bloomer costume and thus l...
The paper examines the relationship between late nineteenth century women, their freedom, and their ...
The distinctions between 'high' and 'low' dress in Victorian times are discussed with the elite conc...