Essays about: "Fashion history"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 51 essays containing the words Fashion history.

  1. 6. The Power of the Power Suit : How do the representations of women’s work in American Vogue reflect the changes in the female labour force participation rate from 1900 to 2020?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Mikaela Sasi; [2022]
    Keywords : Female Labour Force Participation Rate FLFP ; Fashion; Media Representation; United States; Economic History; Content Analysis; The Vogue Magazine; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The increase in female labour force participation rate can be considered as the most significant labour market trend taken place over the last 120 years in the United States. However, despite the drastic increase, women’s labour participation has stagnated since the mid-1990s. READ MORE

  3. 7. Examining the Post-purchase Behaviour of Second-hand Clothing : Extending Expectation Confirmation Theory

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Handelshögskolan (from 2013)

    Author : Frida Hjerpe; [2022]
    Keywords : Collaborative fashion consumption; post-purchase behaviour; expectation confirmation theory; Swedish consumers;

    Abstract : Amongst production industries, the fashion industry is one of those with the most negative impact on the environment. Globalization has driven consumption of contemporary fashion products, such as clothes, to the highest quantities ever recorded in history. READ MORE

  4. 8. Turning Green : Tracing the Thread of Clothing and Class in The House (2022)

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Jenny Lindholm; [2022]
    Keywords : Semiotic Analysis; Class; Costume Design; Fashion History; Clothes; Puppet Animation;

    Abstract : By use of qualitative, semiotic analysis of screenshots taken from Part I of the three-part anthologyfilm The House (2022), an adult stop-motion animation using puppets, the clothing of the charactersis analysed to examine how they convey class and power based on theory by Stuart Hall, PierreBourdieu, Beverly Skeggs and Marita Sturken & Lisa Cartwright. The text further uses fashionhistory to contextualise and interpret visual references to British monarchs Elizabeth I and Henry VIII. READ MORE

  5. 9. Countess Castiglione in the Window of Display : A History of Fashion and the Fl�neuse in the nineteenth century

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Modevetenskap

    Author : Janina Karlsson; [2022]
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  6. 10. Liberté, Égalité, Bien Habillée : Feminine socio-cultural norms from a fashion magazine in the context of the French Directoire, 1797–99

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Chiara Arghittu; [2022]
    Keywords : Fashion history; French Revolution; Directoire; Directory; Journal des Dames et des Modes; Gender history; Political history; Histoire de la mode; Révolution française; Directoire; Journal des Dames et des Modes; Histoire du genre; Histoire politique;

    Abstract : The Journal des Dames et des Modes started its publication in 1797 and was de facto the only popular and lasting fashion magazine aimed towards women since the fall of its predecessor, even prior to 1789. This study argues that this fashion magazine both reflected and constituted the mindset of the new regime’s elite. READ MORE