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Foot in the Past Consumers, Producers and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century

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ISBN-10: 0199292256

ISBN-13: 9780199292257

Edition: 2006

Authors: Giorgio Riello

List price: $210.00
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During the Enlightenment, in a society that was increasingly urbanised and mobile, footwear was an essential item of apparel. This book considers not only the practical but also the symbolic meaning of footwear in France and England during the period from the end of the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century.
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Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/13/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Giorgio Riellois Associate Professor in Global History and Culture at the University of Warwick. He has widely published on fashion, textiles, product innovation and design in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is the author of A Foot in the Past(2006) and co-editor of several volumes including The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives(2010 with P. McNeil). Peter McNeilis Professor of Design History in the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney and Foundation Professor of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. Recent publications include The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives, and Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources, Renaissance to the Present…    

Stepping in : fashion and footwear
Demand and consumption
Innovation and tradition
Shops and shopping
Artisans and guilds
Manufacturing and subcontracting
Continental competition
Towards industrialization
Stepping out : conclusion