An edition of Women of 'Little Paris' (2024)

Women of 'Little Paris'

Fashion in Interwar Bucharest

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Last edited by Sonia D. Andras
May 25, 2024 | History
An edition of Women of 'Little Paris' (2024)

Women of 'Little Paris'

Fashion in Interwar Bucharest

Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the city's modernisation.

Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania's reinvention as a modern state, focusing on middle-class women as they lived their lives - walking through the streets, at lavish events, at cafes and clubs, shopping, and working. Analysing largely unseen, unused written and visual texts, The Women of 'Little Paris' encourages exploration of new avenues for research, uniting scholars of Romanian culture, history and fashion and guiding readers through a forgotten, little explored world and, in so doing, adds to our understanding and knowledge of the global image of interwar fashion cultures and the emerging field of Romanian fashion studies.

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Language
English
Pages
256

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Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest
12 December 2024, Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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First Sentence

"Bucharest exists in the plural."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Mapping the interwar World
Inventing Greater Romania
Fashioning the Romanian Paradox
3. Interwar Metropolitan and Urban Cultures
Women, Life, Fashion and Industry in the City
'Little Paris': A National Rebirth Project
4. From the Modern Girl to the New Woman
Gender Dynamics
Crafting the 'New Romanian Woman'
5. Authors and Characters: Women in Literature
Fictional Women, Real Bucharests
Diaries, Memoirs, Biographies
6. From Subjects to Creators: Women Imagined in the Arts
Portraying Fashion
Performing Fashion
7. Transition to New Visual Forms: Film, Photography
Fashioning the Silver Screen
“Pictured with Nose Up, like Moms Wanted”
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
Index

Edition Notes

Published in
London and New York
Series
Dress Cultures
Copyright Date
2024

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover, Ebook, Online
Pagination
256p
Number of pages
256
Weight
0.455

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL51583793M
ISBN 10
1350294454
ISBN 13
9781350294455, 9781350294462, 9781350294479, 978-1-3502-9448-6
LCCN
2023040000
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1350294454
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.5040/9781350294486, 10.5040/9781350294486.ch-1, 10.5040/9781350294486.ch-2, 10.5040/9781350294486.ch-3, 10.5040/9781350294486.ch-4, 10.5040/9781350294486.ch-5, 10.5040/9781350294486.ch-6, 10.5040/9781350294486.ch-7, 10.5040/9781350294486.ch-8
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
FRBNF45678912
Goodreads
210319074

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Work Description

Romania has not gained much attention from Western academia despite growing interest in Eastern European fashion. This book closes the gap by showcasing middle-class ladies occupying Bucharest’s ‘Little Paris’ areas. The city took great pride in being the most northern and asserted its modernity. These women could afford and were accustomed to supporting modernisation. This book focuses on middle-class women as they are observed on the streets, at opulent events, at cafés and clubs, shopping, or at work. It does this by combining historical research with personal archaeology to provide an understanding of Romania’s reinvention as a modern state. It examines textual and visual texts primarily unutilised from books, magazines, paintings, photos, and other personal, promotional, or instructional materials. This novel study of interwar Romanian materials complements my family’s collection items. English-speaking readers interested in Romanian history and culture are the target audience for this study. This book increases the perspectives on Western writing, primarily focusing on Romania’s specialised interwar political, ideological, and historical aspects. There are new research opportunities for every topic. Romanian fashion studies as a discipline and the expanding corpus of knowledge about interwar fashion cultures elsewhere would benefit from the discovery of this little-known field by fashion scholars. Scholars studying East Europe will discover an interdisciplinary approach that combines previously studied topics of interest. Scholars and students in related fields can access the subject and method. Both scholarly and general audiences will become familiar with this forgotten civilisation through the stories and photographs.

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