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OverviewHow 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 Fashion Television. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexandra Palmer , Royal Ontario MuseumPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.760kg ISBN: 9780802085900ISBN 10: 0802085903 Pages: 406 Publication Date: 29 October 2004 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction Alexandra Palmer Fashion Identity 'Very Picturesque and Very Canadian': The Blanket Coat and Anglo-Canadian Identity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Eileen Stack Dressing Up: A Consuming Passion - Cynthia Cooper Defrocking Dad: Masculinity and Dress in Montreal, 1700-1867 - Jan Noel The Association of Canadian Coutouriers - Alexandra Palmer Fashion, Trade, and Consumption Shop and Factory: The Ontario Millinery Trade in Transition, 1870-1930 - Tina Bates 'The Work Being Chiefly Performed by Women: Female Workers in the Garment Industry in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1871 - Peter J. Larocque Three Thousand Stitches: The Development of the Clothing Industry in Nineteenth-Century Halifax - M. Elaine Mackay Enduring Roots: Gibb and Co. and the Nineteenth-Century Tailoring Trade in Montreal - Gail Cariou Montreal's Fashion Mile: St Gathering Street, 1890-1930 - Elizabeth Sifton Fashion and Transition Dress Reform in Nineteenth-Century Canada - Barbara E. Kelcey Fashion and War in Canada, 1939-1945 - Susan Turnbull Caton Fashion and Refuge: The Jean Harris Salon, 1941-1961 - Lydia Ferrabee Sharman Fashion and Journalism Laced in and Let Down: Women's Fashion Features in the Toronto Daily Press, 1890-1900 - Barbara M. Freeman The Fashion of Writing, 1985-2000: Fashion-themed Televisions Impact on the Canadian Fashion Press - Deborah Pulsang A Little on the Wild Side: Baton's Prestige Fashion Advertising Published in the Montreal Gazette, 1952-1972 - Katherine BosnitchReviews'This book is important, timely, and immensely relevant. Alexandra Palmer has put together a rich and varied collection that will contribute to Canadian cultural history and undoubtedly initiate further projects and debates. The content of each essay is excellent and the collection is outstanding in its complementary diversity. It moves this rapidly expanding and exciting field into the area of Canadian Studies, to which it contributes as significantly as it does to the study of dress and fashion, media studies, cultural history, and the history of consumption.' Janice Helland, Department of Art and Department of Women's Studies, Queen's University """'This book is important, timely, and immensely relevant. Alexandra Palmer has put together a rich and varied collection that will contribute to Canadian cultural history and undoubtedly initiate further projects and debates. The content of each essay is excellent and the collection is outstanding in its complementary diversity. It moves this rapidly expanding and exciting field into the area of Canadian Studies, to which it contributes as significantly as it does to the study of dress and fashion, media studies, cultural history, and the history of consumption.' Janice Helland, Department of Art and Department of Women's Studies, Queen's University""" Author InformationAlexandra Palmer is the fashion and costume curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and an adjunct professor in the graduate program in art history at York University and the art history department at the University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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