Fashion and Modernity

"This book tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world. From top hats to locomotives, dresses to retail outlets, fashion is a prism through which modernity reflects and refracts. Breward and Evans bring together an organic collaboration of voices on this subject. The collection ranges from such topics as James Morrison (1789-1857), the Napoleon of Shopkeepers to dress in the Stuart era The Mannequin Parade, 1900-1925 and clothing the London actress (1860-1914). From the relationship between clothing and forensic sciences, to the play of performance, parasexuality, and the celebrity, Fashion and Modernity offers an enlightening look at fashion and the modern age." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol053/2004023161.html. Introduction / Christopher Breward and Caroline Evans Fashion and Modernity / Elizabeth Wilson Producing Identities James Morrison (1789-1857), 'Napoleon of Shopkeepers', Millionaire Haberdasher, Modern Entrepreneur / Caroline Dakers Response / John Styles Lee Miller and the Limits of Post-war British Modernity: Femininity, Fashion, and the Problem of Biography / Becky L. Conekin Response / Carol Tulloch People Dress so Badly Nowadays: Fashion and Late Modernity / Andrew Hill Response / Adam Briggs Performing Bodies Court Masques: Tableaux of Modernity in the Early Seventeenth Century? / Andrea Stuart Response / Susan North Ambiguous Role Models: Fashion, Modernity and the Victorian Actress / Christopher Breward Response / Lynda Nead Multiple Movement, Model, Mode: The Mannequin Parade 1900-1929 / Caroline Evans Response / Andrew Bolton Processes of Modernity The Fingerprint of the Second Skin / Kitty Hauser Response / Esther Leslie Cuttings and Pastings / Alistair O'Neill Response / Barry Curtis entropy (fashion) and emergence (fashioning) / Jamie Brassett Response / Ben Highmore.

This book tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world. From top hats to locomotives, dresses to retail outlets, fashion is a prism through which modernity reflects and refracts. Breward and Evans bring together an organic collaboration of voices on this subject. The collection ranges from such topics as James Morrison (1789-1857), the Napoleon of Shopkeepers; to dress in the Stuart era; The Mannequin Parade, 1900-1925; and clothing the London actress (1860-1914). From the relationship between clothing and forensic sciences, to the play of performance, parasexuality, and the celebrity, Fashion and Modernity offers an enlightening look at fashion and the modern age.

What is the relationship between fashion and modernity, and how is this unique relationship manifested in the material world? This book considers how the relationship between fashion and modernity tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world