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Fashioning the Early Modern : Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800, Hardback Book

Fashioning the Early Modern : Dress, Textiles, and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800 Hardback

Edited by Evelyn (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Professor of Renaissance Studies, King's College Lo Welch

Part of the Pasold Studies in Textile History series

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How did fashion work in Europe before modern media?

Why were beards suddenly stylish after 1500? Why did the ruff come in and out of use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

Why did men from Spain to Sweden suddenly decide to adopt wigs around 1660 only to drop them less than fifty years later?

How did manufacturers and merchants encourage and then respond to changing demands for colourful printed patterns and new cuts and styles of tailoring in theseventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

As importantly, why were others unsuccessful in terms of their cross-European adoption?

This book explores the ways in which men, women, state industries, guilds and entrepreneurs in early modern Europe created, innovated and promoted new textiles, novel products and unusual forms of dress.

Challenging conventional explanations that explain fashion as spreading from the court elite downwards, it demonstrates the complexity of the relationships that made fashionssuccessful.

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