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Draws a correlation between the American fashion industry and early twentieth-century literature. As American fashion diverged from a class-conscious industry governed by Parisian designers to become more commercial and democratic, Lauren S. Cardon argues, fashion designers and journalists began appropriating the same themes of self-transformation to market new fashion trends.

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Lauren Cardon gives us a broad-spectrum study of how we read, manipulate, blend, and perform fashion in American society and literature. She deftly moves from theory to practice, placing novelists and designers of the Gilded Age in the context of current conversations about the many meanings of fashion. Seeing new patterns in familiar novels, Cardon stitches together a book that is lush, smart, and a joy to read."" — Katherine Joslin, Western Michigan University, author of Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

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      Publisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia
      Publication Date: 4/5/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813938622, 978-0813938622
      ISBN10: 0813938627
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      History of art Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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      Book Synopsis
      Draws a correlation between the American fashion industry and early twentieth-century literature. As American fashion diverged from a class-conscious industry governed by Parisian designers to become more commercial and democratic, Lauren S. Cardon argues, fashion designers and journalists began appropriating the same themes of self-transformation to market new fashion trends.

      Trade Review
      Lauren Cardon gives us a broad-spectrum study of how we read, manipulate, blend, and perform fashion in American society and literature. She deftly moves from theory to practice, placing novelists and designers of the Gilded Age in the context of current conversations about the many meanings of fashion. Seeing new patterns in familiar novels, Cardon stitches together a book that is lush, smart, and a joy to read."" — Katherine Joslin, Western Michigan University, author of Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion

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