Paper Dresses: Representations of Fashion in Buenos Aires’ Press, 1860s and 1870s
The article analyzes representations of fashion on a set of newspapers published in Buenos Aires in the 1860s and the 1870s. After describing the main characteristics of the press developed in this period, the paper focuses on analyzing the fashion illustrations that were published in some newspaper...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/anuariohistoria/article/view/31725 |
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| Sumario: | The article analyzes representations of fashion on a set of newspapers published in Buenos Aires in the 1860s and the 1870s. After describing the main characteristics of the press developed in this period, the paper focuses on analyzing the fashion illustrations that were published in some newspapers, and the texts that coexisted with those images. The article explores ambiguities and tensions between texts and images. Therefore, we argue that fashion had a renewed place on the press: fashion illustrations not only transmitted Paris’ fashion in Buenos Aires, but also communicated a life-style associated with the bourgeoise-feminine; meanwhile the images’ descriptions attempted to adapt them to local reality. Additionally, in the chronicles about fashion, some other voices warned about the dangers that fashion and its consumption could bring to women and their families. |
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