- 390 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
Controversial and unconventional, this collection examines Canadian identity in terms of the fashion worn and designed over the last three centuries, and the internal and external influences of those socio-cultural decisions.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Fashion and Identity
- 'Very Picturesque and Very Canadian': The Blanket Coat and Anglo-Canadian Identity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- Dressing Up: A Consuming Passion
- Defrocking Dad: Masculinity and Dress in Montreal, 1700-1867
- The Association of Canadian Couturiers
- Fashion, Trade, and Consumption
- Shop and Factory: The Ontario Millinery Trade in Transition, 1870-1930
- The Work Being Chiefly Performed by Women: Female Workers in the Garment Industry in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1871
- Three Thousand Stitches: The Development of the Clothing Industry in Nineteenth-Century Halifax
- Enduring Roots: Gibb and Co. and the Nineteenth- Century Tailoring Trade in Montreal
- Montreal's Fashion Mile: St Catherine Street, 1890-1930
- Fashion and Transition
- Dress Reform in Nineteenth-Century Canada
- Fashion and War in Canada, 1939-1945
- Fashion and Refuge: The Jane Harris Salon, Montreal, 1941-1961
- Fashion and Journalism
- Laced In and Let Down: Women's Fashion Features in the Toronto Daily Press, 1890-1900
- The Fashion of Writing, 1985-2000: Fashion-Themed Television s Impact on the Canadian Fashion Press
- A Little on the Wild Side: Eaton's Prestige Fashion Advertising Published in the Montreal Gazette, 1952-1972
- Contributors
- Index