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The Fashion of Parisian Workers in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Class Identity and Leisure Identity

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2015, (32), pp.55~83
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Lee Ja Suh 1

1연세대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

During the 19th century, France was under industrialization, resulting the birth of working class and the mass supply of cheap clothes. The combination of two phenomena gave the birth of Parisian workers’ fashion. However, men and women formed different fashions. Men chose felt hats and carmagnole jackets after the Sans-Culottes of 1789, a visual discrimination from the bourgeois outfits. On the contrary, women workers’ fashion led by seamstresses, tailors, maids and the employees of Magasins de nouveautés preferred leisure identity to class or trade identity. While men had achieved universal suffrage in 1848 and formed Parti Ouvrier in 1879, women did not have the rights to vote or join unions. Sometimes, women were physically attacked by men of same trades. Under these circumstances, it was difficult for women to develop a positive class identity or a independent class fashion.

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