The mechanical smile : modernism and the first fashion shows in France and America, 1900-1929 / Caroline Evans.

In the early 20th century, the desire to see clothing in motion flourished on both sides of the Atlantic: models tangoed, slithered, swaggered, and undulated before customers in couture houses and department stores. The Mechanical Smile traces the history of the earliest fashion shows in France and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Evans, Caroline, 1954-
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Fashion shows > France > History.
Fashion shows > United States > History.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > France.
Modernism (Aesthetics) > United States.
Models (Persons)
Physical Description:331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Format: Book

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