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The Clothing of the French Mind
Sima Godfrey discusses her study of high fashion and fashionability in mid-nineteenth-century French literature. In the Second Empire, which was a time of unstable social structure as the middle class strengthened, the culture of and interest in fashion were reflected … Continue reading
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