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20th Century Dress and Fashion: Weekly Readings
Please complete all readings BEFORE we meet for class that day.
Week 1:
May 29th, Introduction:
Encyclopedia of Clothes and Fashion
Please read pages 1-5
June 3rd, Bustle Period:
Empress Eugenie
Nineteenth-Century Silhouette and Support
Princess Eugenie Surrounded by her Ladies in Waiting
From Queen to Empress: Victorian Age
Please read pages 53-58 “Evening Dress”
Edwardian Fashion
Edwardian Women
Week 2:
June 3rd, 1920s: “Roaring Twenties”:
Fashion History Timeline, 1920-1929
The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s
June 3rd, 1930s: “Dirty Thirties”:
Fashion History Timeline, 1930-39
June 4th, 1940s: “The War Years”:
Fashion History Timeline, 1940-49
Gilbert Adrian, Evening Dress, LGBTQ+ 1940s
Week 3: North African & The Middle East
June 10th, Mauritanian Veil:
Fashioning People, Crafting Networks: Multiple Meanings in the Mauritanian Veil (Malahfa)
June 11th, Ait Khabbash and Tuareg Women:
The Art of Dressing the Body (begins on pg. 47)
Week 4:
June 17th: The Fifties: South Africa, The United States, and Europe:
Fashion History Timeline, 1950-59
The 1953 - Sophie Gimbel, Cocktail Dress
June 17th: The Sixties: The US, Bamako (Mali), and James Brown:
Designer Profile: Stephen Burrows
Fashion History Timeline, 1960-69
Malick Sidibé’s Photographs Captured Moments of Joy and Liberation in Mali
June 18th: The Eighties and Nineties:
Designer Profile: Patrick Kelly
Fashion History Timeline, 1980-89
Fashion History Timeline, 1990-99
Designer Profile: Vivienne Westwood
Alexander McQueen, Winged Ensemble, 1999, LGBTQ+ Fashion History
Week 5: Fashion, Race, Colonization, and Labor:
June 24th: France and Algeria
Empire of the Republic: The Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris, 1931
The North African Eye of Yves Saint Laurent
June 24th: Supply Chains and Racism in Fashion (followed by final presentations)
Racism & Fashion Supply Chains with Minh-Ha T. Pham
Please watch the video on this page