Cultural History of Fashion 1789-1914 3301-KB2400
The course will be devoted to the analysis of fashion, its importance to the style of the epoch and correlations between fashion and other aspects of culture. The subjects will include:
1. Cultural significance of fashion. Fashion as an expression of style, symbolic meanings of fashion.
2. The circulation of fashion. Ready-to-wear, made-to-measure, and self-made clothes. Fashion plates and magazines. Social class and fashion.
3. Three levels of formality of fashion. Costume and custom. Great Britain and continental Europe.
4. A set of classes devoted to detailed analysis of styles in female fashion of the 19c. - clothes, underwear, headdress, hairdo, accessories:
- the Napoleonic period, neo-classicism;
- anti-classical styles, Romanticism in fashion;
- the crinoline;
- the bustle;
- the belle époque and the Edwardian period.
5. Male fashion.
6. Children's fashion.
7. Appropriateness of dress to the occasion: sporting and traveling clothes, bridal and mourning wear.
8. Political clothes: bloomerism, dress reform, aestheticism.
9. Connections between fashion and other forms of culture: interior design, painting, architecture.
Course coordinators
Type of course
Learning outcomes
Knowledge:
K_W02 - understand key terminology, well established methods and theories of fashion
K_W07 - explain principles of designing literary and culture studies, with special focus on selecting appropriate methods and tools in formulating research questions
Skills:
K_U01 - employ the terminology and methodological tools
Competences:
K_K02 - undertake life-long learning and personal development, applying skills and competences to select subjects and projects
In class discussions students acquire skills of expressing their thoughts in a clear, coherent, logical and precise manner, with the use of language which is correct grammatically, lexically and phonetically.
Assessment criteria
Short written tasks/presentations during the semester, online tests. Final oral exam.
3 absences allowed
Bibliography
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Banach, Andrzej, Historia pięknej kobiety. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1960.
Banach, Andrzej, Portret wzorowego mężczyzny. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1965.
Boucher, Francois, Historia mody. Warszawa: Arkady: 2003.
Byrde, Penelope, Nineteenth Century Fashion. London: B.T. Batsford, 1992.
Gernsheim, Alison, Victorian and Edwardian Fashion. A Photographic Survey. New York: Dover Publications, 1963.
Mitchell, Sally, Daily Life in Victorian England. London: Greenwood Press, 1996.
Możdżyńska-Nawotka, Małgorzata, O modach i strojach. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Dolnośląskie, 2002.
Nunn, Joan, Fashion in Costume 1200-1980. London: Herbert Press, 1993.
Randall, Rona, The Model Wife. Nineteenth century style. London: Herbert Press, 1989.
Walkley, Christina, The Way to Wear' Em. 150 Years of Punch on Fashion. London: Peter Owen, 1985.