Fashion: A Canadian PerspectiveAlexandra Palmer How does a country dress itself? From Montreal's 'Retail Mile, ' to Ontario's millinery trade, to how war and television can effect the garment industry or whether tailoring can make a cultural impact, Alexandra Palmer gathers together some of the top curators, designers, fashion writers, historians, and artists in the country to create a truly dynamic and thought-provoking collection of essays. Controversial and unconventional, Fashion: A Canadian Perspective challenges readers to consider aspects of Canadian identity in terms of what its citizenship has chosen to wear for the last three centuries, and the internal and external influences of those socio-cultural decisions. Covering a broad range of topics -- such as the iconic Hudson Bay Blanket Coats, garment factories of the late 1800s, specific Canadian fashion couturiers whose influences reach international stages, and the contemporary role of fashion journalists and their effect on trends -- this collection breaks new ground in producing multiple perspectives on fashion and fashion dress. In a country that has given birth to such global fashion corporations as Club Monaco, Roots, and MAC, Fashion: A Canadian Perspective develops the first intriguing and readable historiography that links past to future, couture vision to trade trends, and heritage costuming to FashionTelevision. |
Contents
The Blanket Coat and AngloCanadian Identity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century | 17 |
A Consuming Passion | 41 |
Masculinity and Dress in Montreal 17001867 | 68 |
The Association of Canadian Couturiers | 90 |
FASHION TRADE AND CONSUMPTION | 111 |
The Ontario Millinery Trade in Transition 18701930 | 113 |
Female Workers in the Garment Industry in Saint John New Brunswick in 1871 | 139 |
The Development of the Clothing Industry in NineteenthCentury Halifax | 166 |
Dress Reform in NineteenthCentury Canada | 229 |
Fashion and War in Canada 19391945 | 249 |
The Jane Harris Salon Montreal 19411961 | 270 |
FASHION AND JOURNALISM | 289 |
Womens Fashion Features in the Toronto Daily Press 18901900 | 291 |
FashionThemed Televisions Impact on the Canadian Fashion Press | 315 |
Eatons Prestige Fashion Advertising Published in the Montreal Gazette 19521972 | 339 |
Contributors | 365 |