The mechanical smile : modernism and the first fashion shows in France and America, 1900-1929 / Caro...
The mechanical smile : modernism and the first fashion shows in France and America, 1900-1929 / Caro...
The mechanical smile : modernism and the first fashion shows in France and America, 1900-1929 / Caroline Evans.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Call Numbers
GQ 2013/1182
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- Prehistory: nineteenth century fashion modelling -- Paris 1900-1914: the rationalization of the body -- 1900-1914: French fashion on the world stage -- America 1900-1917: show business -- 1914-1919: wartime Paris and the nationalization of the body -- 1919-1929: fashion in motion --...
Publication information
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2013]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. The Mechanical Smile traces the history of the earliest fashion shows in France and the United States from their origins in the 1880s...
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Full title
The mechanical smile : modernism and the first fashion shows in France and America, 1900-1929 / Caroline Evans.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-314) and index.
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Call Numbers
GQ 2013/1182
Record Identifier
74VKqOMo3dbl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKqOMo3dbl
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ISBN
0300189532 (alk. paper)
9780300189537 (alk. paper)
DDC
746.920944
MMS ID
991020225709702626
