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...
Main Author: | Evans, Caroline, 1954- |
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Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2013]
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Physical Description: | 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
Format: | Book |