Fashion

Question 1

Eliot: typist:

Answer 1

“Out of the window perilously spread
Her drying combinations touched by the sun’s last rays,
On the divan are piled (at night her bed)
Stockings, slippers, camisoles, and stays”

Question 2

Eliot Crit x2

Answer 2

McGann: Eliot’s women live sterile lives with synthetic comforts and sex that substitutes for love;
Al-Bazei: “Victim of the merciless metropolis”

Question 3

Rhys: 
Attitude towards clothes
Hope
Shop
Danger subtext

Answer 3

“if I could buy this, then of course I’d be happy.’
“Keep hope alive and you can do anything, and that’s the way the world goes round”
“you could see the rows of dresses on hangers. The dresses, all colours, hanging there waiting”spends £18 in an afternoon
“I’ll do anything for good clothes. Anything—anything for clothes”

Question 4

Way to entrap context: (facts)

Answer 4

Co-co chanel: exploited the female workers that made her clothing
High-brow, vogue also contained modernist writing, tool of agency and independance, but also double bind- skirt shows thighs

Question 5

Rhys crit (names)

Answer 5

Zimring: in rhys women spend in an attempt to compensate for displacement and loss, Can have some means of self-assertion, bit never get consolation