FASHION AND TEXTILES III
From the French Revolution to the First World War

How have different identities dressed since the French Revolution? Where did the textile raw materials come from and how were they traded? What do we know about dress codes since the beginning of the bourgeois era and how and where do they live on today? These and other questions relating to the material cultural history of textiles and clothing will be explored in this lecture using selected visual sources and other media. The following aspects are of particular interest and form the focus of the lecture:

- Basic knowledge of the history and functions of clothing of the sexes
- Development of the production conditions of textiles and clothing
- Conveying the world and human image of the time periods
- Fashion and communication; rituals, gestures and dress languages
- History of economic and distribution processes, technical inventions
- The third dimension in clothing
- 1800 - a European threshold age and its consequences
- Patterns of fashion
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Literatur: 

Boucher, Francois, 20 000 Years of Fashion. The History of Costume and Personal Adornment, London 1987  

De la Haye, Amy, Fashion since 1900 (World of Art), London 2021

Hunter, Clare, Threads of Life, London 2019

Gordon, Beverly, Textiles. The whole Story, London 2011

Kawamura, Yunia, Fashion-ology, An introduction to fashion studies, London 2004  

 McDowell, Colin, The Anatomy of Fashion, London 2013

Reclams Mode- und Kostüm Lexikon, Hg. von Ingrid Loschek und Gundula Wolter, Stuttgart 1987 und spätere Auflagen  

 Wilckens, Leonie von, Die textilen Künste, München 1991

Rieff Anawalt, Patricia, Weltgeschichte der Bekleidung, Bern 2007

Vinken, Barbara, Ver-kleiden. Was wir tun, wenn wir uns anziehen. Wien-Salzburg 2022

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weitere Literatur  wird laufend ergänzt. Es befindet sich ein Handapparat zur Vorlesung in der Bibliothek und  aktuelle  Ergänzungen und Literatur und Medienempfehlungen im Laufe der Vorlesung 

Requirements

Students must take a written exam after the end of the lecture dates. There are 3 examination dates. The exam consists of open questions. The exam can also be answered in English.

Students are not required to attend the lectures, but are recommended to do so

The grade is only made up of the results of the written exam. In the event of a negative result, this can be repeated up to 3 times.

Handwritten notes and drawings are welcome during the lecture. Students are also allowed to use their laptops.  There is a picture script for each lecture.  Questions and comments on the topic may be asked at any time.

Basic and advanced literature should be read in addition to the lectures (literature handout no. 22 in the library).

Aims

Students will gain an overview of the history of fashion and aspects of textile history. They will be able to recognise fashionable silhouettes and classify them historically and socially. They will be able to critically assess the fashion system of the present based on their knowledge of history.