FSN 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tuxedo, Paul Poiret, Top Hat
4 Nov 2017
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Prostitution: high commercial art form, cora pearl highest paid courtesan of the time frame 100,000 francs per night for her service. Hats: become more elaborate from the victorian bonnets. Men"s fashions: black tailcoat reached its peak in early 1880"s then went into a decline challenged by the arrival of the dinner jacket/tuxedo in the 1890s. In order to be properly dressed, a man was thought to require 16 different outfits. End of 1910: trying to close the gap between the poor and wealthy, women pursuing occupations, needed simpler fashions. 2017-11-03: tailor-made shirts, skirts, blouses, women were starting to voice their opinions, women were taking part in sports and go to university however, still did not have the vote considered physically and mentally inferior to men. 1909 a wave of orientalism in europe. Involved in shoe and hat design: 1914, when war broke out, poiret closed his business and joined the war effort.
