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Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents

Fabretti, Isabella Campagnol

Hardcover

Series: Costume Society of America

Fashion & AccessoriesItalian History

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0896728293
ISBN13: 9780896728295
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: Jan 15 2014
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.41 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling--simply to save their parents the expense of their dowry--these involuntary nuns relied on the symbolic meaning of secular clothes, fabrics, and colors to rebel against the rules and prescriptions of conventual life and to define roles and social status inside monastic society.Calling upon mountains of archival documents, most of which have never been seen in print, Forbidden Fashions is the first book to focus specifically upon the dress of nuns in Venetian convents and offers new perspective on the intersection of dress and the city's social and economic history.

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