Fashion System Flashcards

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Bloomer Costume

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Outfit that emphasized pants as a way of gaining equality and an active role in the public sphere. Politicized the female wardrobe in that it was ridiculed and many women reverted back to Victorian fashions (Clothing connected to Socially Acceptable Womanhood). This is because the outfit portrayed pants as inextricable from power and insinuated that femininity and power could not coexist. It was too much of an attack on Victorian Gender norms and made femininity out to be a weakness, subsequently many women abandoned it.

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Aesthetic Dress

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Arose after Bloomer, didn’t attack inequalities but instead made freer ways of dressing socially acceptable & a form of art.

  • Reformed fashion more subtly but more lastingly.
  • Defied domesticity and assumed greater cultural agency for women.
  • Represented a gradual loosening of private/public spheres
  • Came to symbolize a progressive sensibility
  • Greek statue Venus de Millo brought back ideals of flowing garments that accentuated natural lines that allowed beauty and femininity to coexist with power and freedom while allowing women to reclaim their bodies.
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Cult of True Womanhood

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Ideology for white upper class women that saw women as hostages of the home, central to the home and the light of the family (her only job was to provide for the family and make the home welcoming). Believed women should adhere to 4 virtues: Piety, Purity, Submission and Domesticity to make her an ideal mother/wife/daughter/sister and a true woman. Victorian dress visually reinforces true womanhood.

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Piety

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Religion; did not take women away from her “proper sphere” in the home & controlled women’s longings

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Purity

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Virginity; a woman’s greatest treasure lost only on her marriage night, only her husband has access to her.

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Submission

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Obedience; behaving like children in a sense that they do whatever they are told because men were their superiors

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Domesticity

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Proper place in the home, create refuge for the husband and kids.

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Main point of “Dress Reform in the 19th Century” by Jennifer Curtis:

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Looking at the social representation of clothing in the 1800’s, specifically how they tie to gender, power and social roles and how women advocated for themselves and their bodies with the Bloomer movement & Aesthetic dress. Although the latter also served to tie femininity with power rather than achieving power through masculine dress

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Power representation of clothing

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Assuming clothing as symbolic of masculinity is not the only means of empowerment in fashion. As “Aesthetic Dress” indicates, celebration of femininity is more empowering for women in clothing.

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Clothing as a Cultural Artifact

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Our clothing is a collection of culture artifact that have social meanings and the social meaning of clothing is deeply bound with gender, Fashion is apart of attitudes of and expectations towards men and women.

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Separate Spheres of Ideology

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refers to a sense that there are two very distinct (and distinctly gendered) realms of modern life - the public world of work and politics (men) and the private world of family and home (women). Work of reformers drew women into the public sphere: when they call for full citizenship, reform, they are refusing to stay within the private sphere, refusing to stay in the restrictive parameters of socially defined womanhood

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What was wrong with the Bloomer movement?

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Terms of Amelia Bloomers reform are too disruptive for the time to change anything , far too radical and challenging of Victorian gender norms

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First Wave of the American Women’s Movement

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(1848-1920) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other white American women attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in June of 1840 and were denied full access to the proceedings by virtue of their sex. Upon their return to the US, they begin to agitate for white women’s full citizenship and suffrage. In 1848, they hold a large women’s right convention in Seneca Falls and they produce a Declaration of Sentiments that includes a call for suffrage.

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Suffrage in Canada

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At the federal level, most (but not all) women are granted suffrage in 1918. At the provincial level, the granting of suffrage is staggered, with women in Alberta earning this right in 1916, and Quebec in 1940. Indigenous women and men are not able to vote federally until 1960, (1940 if they gave up Indian Status).

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What/When was the Victorian Era?

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When Queen Victoria ruled (1837-1901), Mostly British context but influential in North America

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