Jews in Suits : Men's Dress in Vienna, 1890-1938 PDF
by Kaplan-Wajselbaum Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum
Part of the Dress Cultures series
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Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-si cle and interwar periods both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the adoption of the tailored suit and its function in the formation of modern Jewish identities remains under-researched.
Jews in Suits uses a rich range of written and visual sources, including literary fiction and satire, 'ego-documents', photography, trade catalogues, invoices, and department store culture, to propose a new narrative of men, fashion, and their Jewish identities. It reveals that dressing in a modern manner was not simply a matter of assimilation, but rather a way of developing new models of Jewish subjectivity beyond the externally prescribed notion of 'the Jew'. Drawing upon fashionable dress, folk costume, religious dress, avant-garde, oppositional dress, typologies which are often considered separate from one another, it proposes a new way of reading men and clothing cultures within an iconic cultural milieu, offering insights into the relationship of clothing and grooming to the understanding of the self.
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- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:04/05/2023
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:04/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781350244221
