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A Wardrobe of Her Own: Dissident Feminities in the 19th Century
Culture · Thursday, October 15 · 10:00 · Paris
Palais Galliera - musée de la Mode de Paris, 10 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie
Free
This autumn, the Palais Galliera presents the exhibition 'A Wardrobe of Her Own: Dissident Feminities in the 19th Century' and highlights a phenomenon still largely unknown: the appropriation by 19th-century women of the masculine dress codes of their time. Designed as a response to the often normative approaches to femininity in fashion exhibitions, A Wardrobe of Her Own: Dissident Femininities in the 19th Century aims to fill an important gap in fashion history. The exhibition reveals how the increasingly pronounced adoption of masculine wardrobe codes accompanied…
