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A wardrobe of one's own. Dissident femininities in the 19th century
Culture · Friday, October 16 · 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 one's own. Dissident femininities in the 19th century” and sheds light on a phenomenon still largely unknown: the appropriation by 19th-century women of the masculine dress codes of their time. Conceived as a response to the often normative approaches to femininity in fashion exhibitions, A wardrobe of one's 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…
