Inside the Royal Wardrobe

A Dress History of Queen Alexandra

Kate Strasdin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-6993-3 (ISBN)

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Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving garments of Alexandra, Princess of Wales – who later became Queen Consort – to unlock a rich tapestry of royal dress and society in the second half of the 19th century.

More than 130 extraordinary garments from Alexandra’s wardrobe survive, from sumptuous court dress and politicised fancy dress to mourning attire and elegant coronation gowns, and can be found in various collections around the world, from London, Oslo and Denmark to New York, Toronto and Tokyo. Curator and fashion scholar Kate Strasdin places these garments at the heart of this in-depth study, examining their relationships to issues such as body politics, power, celebrity, social identity and performance, and interpreting Alexandra’s world from the objects out.

Adopting an object-based methodology, the book features a range of original sources from letters, travel journals and newspaper editorials, to wardrobe accounts, memoirs, tailors’ ledgers and business records. Revealing a shrewd and socially aware woman attuned to the popular power of royal dress, the work will appeal to students and scholars of costume, fashion and dress history, as well as of material culture and 19th century history.

Kate Strasdin is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the Fashion and Textiles Institute, Falmouth University, UK, and a Visiting Lecturer at DeTao Masters Academy in Shanghai, China. She is Deputy Curator at the Totnes Fashion and Textile Museum, one of the largest private collection of dress in the UK.

Introduction

1. Managing the Royal Wardrobe
2. Engagement and Marriage
3. Evening and Court Dress
4. The Travelling Princess
5. Fancy Dress
6. Tailoring
7. Mourning Dress
8. The Coronation Gown
9. Dispersal of a Royal Wardrobe

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Dress and Fashion Research
Zusatzinfo	17 colour and 23 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	501 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4742-6993-1 / 1474269931
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-6993-3 / 9781474269933
Zustand	Neuware