Regional Dress

Between Tradition and Modernity

Sara Hume (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-32773-3 (ISBN)

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Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices for rural religious events. Yet despite its fundamentally local nature, traditional dress in various European regions developed along a similar trajectory, sometimes being transformed into political symbols and regional promotion for tourism, and always revealing the complexity of rural society in terms of religious divisions, class inequality and tension between the desires to protect tradition and embrace modernity. To better understand how traditional dress evolved in France and Germany from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book takes Alsace as its case study and in doing so illuminates broad experiences of modernity across rural Europe and answers overarching questions about regionalism and nationalism.

Specifically, Sara Hume unpacks why Alsatian dress was adopted as a symbol of loyalty to France despite being closer in style to German dress practices. She explores the impact of political and geographical tensions on the appearance and function of traditional clothing, for example in Alsace’s situation at the border between France and Germany and in its transformation from disputed territory into capital of a united Europe. Logically progressing chapters reveal how modernity did not drive out tradition in rural communities but rather led to processes of adaption, preservation and re-evaluation.

Through a rich variety of primary sources including costumes, illustrations, political cartoons, legal documents and oral histories, Regional Dress sheds light on the little known and rarely documented experiences of rural Europeans. Its material culture approach to the study of regionalism is essential to students of traditional and folk dress history, European history and design history.

Sara Hume is Professor and Curator at Kent State University Museum, USA.

List 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

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	22 color and 63 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-32773-5 / 1350327735
ISBN-13	978-1-350-32773-3 / 9781350327733
Zustand	Neuware