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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Dress History"”.
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Patterns as Documents and Drawings: An artistic exploration of tailoring patterns as historical documents and drawings abstracting the human form. An analysis from the perspective of a creative art practitioner
… rare for patterns to be analysed by contemporary dress historians for their contribution to history. This thesis will demonstrate how tailoring patterns are undervalued and neglected, and remain a hidden craft. This qualitative research is conducted in the archive in order to gain a deep …
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Disclosure : the development of a classification system describing the historical design elements of women's corsets (1870-1911) in the absence of an exhibition : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Masters of Design (Fashion), Massey University
… conducted into the under documented area of the dress history of Pakeha women in Victorian and Edwardian New Zealand. The research model and system of identifying, classifying and cataloguing is not exclusive to corset research, it could be modified and applied to other design-based research …
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Sexuality, Identity and the Clothed Male Body
… deals specifically and significantly with the dressed male body. This thesis presents a case for the collection of publications included in the submission to be viewed as a coherent body of work which makes a contribution to knowledge in the fields of fashion studies and cultural studies, in …
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Female Equestrian Culture in France, 1600-1715
… garments within current trends in fashion and dress history. Chapter I examines definitions of female athleticism in medical and pedagogic literature. It highlights how traditional humoral models of the body and conservative views of women’s education gradually made space for new progressive …
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Rubens, van Dyck, and women's dress in Genoese portraiture, 1606-1627
This PhD examines elite feminine dress in the Republic of Genoa and the politics of display in portraits by Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). This thesis combines art and dress history to demonstrate how Genoese women harnessed clothes and images to …
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The Autoptic Eye: A Methodology for Drawing Worn Clothes and Narrating the Past in Collections of Textiles and Dress
… in collections of historical textiles and dress can reveal information, such as how clothing was made, worn, altered, and cared for. It has a particular focus on signs of wear, such as stains, mends and tears and how these subtle marks left by the bodies that wore the clothes, or cared for …
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Costume Albums in Charles V’s Habsburg Empire (1528-1549)
This dissertation addresses the development of the costume book in the rapidly globalising world of the sixteenth century, concentrating on two costume albums produced in the second quarter of the sixteenth century and whose owners and creators shared close ties to the imperial court of Habsburg …
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Fashion Diplomacy at the Court of Henry VIII
While dress historians have long recognised clothing as an essential feature of court life in sixteenth-century Europe, its value to other areas of scholarly inquiry has often been overlooked. The ephemeral nature of medieval and early modern dress, and the moralised and gendered assessments of …