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A Wardrobe of One's Own: Dissident Femininities in the 19th Century
Culture · Tuesday, October 6 · 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 highlights a phenomenon still largely unknown: the appropriation, by women of the 19th century, of the masculine dress codes of their time. Conceived as a response to often normative approaches to femininity in fashion exhibitions, A Wardrobe of One's Own. Dissident Femininities in the 19th Century aims to fill a significant gap in the history of fashion. The exhibition reveals how the increasingly pronounced adoption of the codes of masculine dressing accompani…
