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Book SynopsisSara Hume is Professor and Curator at Kent State University Museum, USA.
Trade ReviewA brilliant book that sheds new light on the history of regional dress. It is a welcome addition to fashion, costume studies and material culture with their implications with history (local and international), society, gender and politics. * Eugenia Paulicelli, Director of Fashion Studies, The City University of New York, USA *
Brilliantly traces the evolution of Alsatian regional dress across the 19th and 20th centuries. Sara Hume offers vivid descriptions of costume in contexts from images to museums to material culture, and uncovers regional dress as a living object which complicates our assumptions about the meanings of tradition and modernity in contemporary Europe. * Alison Carrol, Reader in European History, Brunel University London, UK *
Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures List of Maps Acknowledgements Maps Introduction
1. Religious Performance Relationship between religion and dress Processions and the performance of Catholicism Performance of Protestantism Other minority religious groups Exclusion of minority religions from public spaces Dress as ritual Declining link between regional dress and religious observance
2. Visual Representation Field guide to the folk Photography of regional dress Realism and regional dress Book illustrations Art Nouveau and the Alsatian Awakening Spindler as photographer and ethnologue Development of l’Alsacienne as a symbol of Alsace
3. Material Goods Basic components of rural Alsatian wardrobes Shift to coordinating outfits Quantity and value of clothing Evolution of special occasion wear Development of retail in Alsace Introduction of department stores Home based industrial production Education and apprenticeship for craftspeople Apprenticeships in the interwar period Tailoring and dressmaking in literature
4. Museum Objects Roots of folk museums Founding of the Musée alsacien The collection and its acquisition Nature of the early displays Producing and reproducing the image of regional culture Kermesse: masquerade and commerce
5. Living History Non-religious festivals Wedding processions Turn-of-the-century festivals Folklorization of Fête-Dieu Folk dress in political rallies Organization of folk groups Nazi influence on folklore Re-emergence of interest in folklore Conclusion Bibliography Index
