Fashion : : A Canadian Perspective / / Royal Ontario Museum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Royal Ontario Museum, ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

How does a country dress itself? From Montreal's 'Retail Mile,' to Ontario's millinery trade, to how war and television can effect the garment industry or whether tailoring can make a cultural impact, Alexandra Palmer gathers together some of the top curators, designers, fashion writers, historians, and artists in the country to create a truly dynamic and thought-provoking collection of essays.Controversial and unconventional, Fashion: A Canadian Perspective challenges readers to consider aspects of Canadian identity in terms of what its citizenship has chosen to wear for the last three centuries, and the internal and external influences of those socio-cultural decisions. Covering a broad range of topics - such as the iconic Hudson Bay Blanket Coats, garment factories of the late 1800s, specific Canadian fashion couturiers whose influences reach international stages, and the contemporary role of fashion journalists and their effect on trends - this collection breaks new ground in producing multiple perspectives on fashion and fashion dress.In a country that has given birth to such global fashion corporations as Club Monaco, Roots, and MAC, Fashion: A Canadian Perspective develops the first intriguing and readable historiography that links past to future, couture vision to trade trends, and heritage costuming to FashionTelevision.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Palmer, Alexandra -- Fashion and Identity -- 'Very Picturesque and Very Canadian': The Blanket Coat and Anglo-Canadian Identity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century / Stack, Eileen -- Dressing Up: A Consuming Passion / Cooper, Cynthia -- Defrocking Dad: Masculinity and Dress in Montreal, 1700-1867 / Noel, Jan -- The Association of Canadian Couturiers / Palmer, Alexandra -- Fashion, Trade, and Consumption -- Shop and Factory: The Ontario Millinery Trade in Transition, 1870-1930 / Bates, Christina -- The Work Being Chiefly Performed by Women: Female Workers in the Garment Industry in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1871 / Larocque, Peter J. -- Three Thousand Stitches: The Development of the Clothing Industry in Nineteenth-Century Halifax / Mackay, M. Elaine -- Enduring Roots: Gibb and Co. and the Nineteenth- Century Tailoring Trade in Montreal / Cariou, Gail -- Montreal's Fashion Mile: St Catherine Street, 1890-1930 / Sifton, Elizabeth -- Fashion and Transition -- Dress Reform in Nineteenth-Century Canada / Kelcey, Barbara E. -- Fashion and War in Canada, 1939-1945 / Caton, Susan Turnbull -- Fashion and Refuge: The Jane Harris Salon, Montreal, 1941-1961 / Sharman, Lydia Ferrabee -- Fashion and Journalism -- Laced In and Let Down: Women's Fashion Features in the Toronto Daily Press, 1890-1900 / Freeman, Barbara M. -- The Fashion of Writing, 1985-2000: Fashion-Themed Television s Impact on the Canadian Fashion Press / Fulsang, Deborah -- A Little on the Wild Side: Eaton's Prestige Fashion Advertising Published in the Montreal Gazette, 1952-1972 / Bosnitch, Katherine -- Contributors -- Index