Year: 2018
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This essay examines how young women negotiated their position in family life through participation in the larger world of Florentine clothing and fashion.Although young women were far from independent agents, they could take active roles in assembling a dowry and trousseau and later, as wives and new mothers, in arranging clothing for themselves and other family members.Two case studies of correspondence from the mid to late sixteenth century of Florentine women in the Spinelli and Ricasoli families suggest that daughters and young wives engaged with fashion and the consumption of apparel, before and after marriage, for their households.
Author: Megan Moran
Institution: University of Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2904884424