Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-century France

by SusanHiner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $66.78

  Examining fashion accessories in both novels and fashion discourses, Susan Hiner reframes the feminine accessory as a signifier of modernity and makes an important claim about the accessory status of women in nineteenth-century France: as both commodities and consumers, women were in fact accessories to modernity.