Film is often conceived as a medium that is watched rather than experienced. Existing
studies of film audiences, and of media reception more broadly, have revealed the …

The fancy-dress costume worn by Queen Victoria (1819–1901) to her Stuart Ball in 1851 is
an outlier amongst her surviving wardrobe. As an object of fancy dress, it combines the …

How wealthy American women--as consumers and as influencers--helped shape French
couture of the late nineteenth century; lavishly illustrated. French fashion of the late …

In the nineteenth century, fancy dress activities and their material record formed part of the
mise-en-scène of the Jewish elite's self-fashioning. Family photographs and press reports of …

Many fashion designers repudiate the influence of fancy dress within their work. This
marginalization likely reflects a socialized attitude that fancy dress is a short-lived, skill-less …

This dissertation is both a comparative cultural history and a social history of early New
Orleans jazz. While twentieth-century paradigms tend to examine jazz as a product of a self …

Cultural appropriation in fashionable dress has become an increasingly urgent subject
within scholarly and generalist discussions. Few weeks now pass without a news story …

Abstract The Stuarts, who ruled Britain between 1603 and 1714, are among the country's
longest reigning and most divisive of royal dynasties. During the nineteenth century …

A pilot study was conducted to determine the feasibility of the quantitative survey method in
identifying common motivations for wearing historically-inspired dress and identifying …

Featuring many exquisite historical photographs, a celebration of the sometimes
extravagant, sometimes bizarre pastime: playing dress-up. Pierrot, Little Bo Peep, cowboy …