From Sleepwear to Sportswear

How Beach Pajamas Reshaped Women's Fashion

AvJanine D'Agati,Hannah Schiff

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser suit moved from the boudoir to the beach in the early 1920s it cemented the image of the trousered woman.Worn by Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich, painted by Raoul Dufy and immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, between the two world wars pajamas came to symbolize much more than sleepwear. This book explores how the pajama phenomenon was not only critical to the careers of designers such as Chanel, Patou, Poiret, and Schiaparelli, but how the versatile garment was also bound to the independence of women and influenced culture more broadly.Through meticulous research and never-before-seen images, the authors position pajama fashion in the context of the Golden Age of Travel, the rise of Hollywood, and the changing political climate of the early 20th century, to reveal how the rising trend in sleepwear influenced The American Look, modern sportswear, and the image of the trousered woman.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-08
Mått:184 x 244 x 18 mm
Vikt:758 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350231924

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Janine D’Agati is the owner of Guermantes Vintage, specializing in 1920s-1940s women’s fashion. She has been interviewed on theartofdress.org, acknowledged in Fashion Studies Journal, and has contributed to period wardrobe for numerous film, tv, and theater productions. She holds a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University.Hannah Schiff is a fashion historian with an MA in Costume Studies from New York University. She is published in The Hidden History of American Fashion: Rediscovering 20th Century Women Designers (Bloomsbury, 2018). She is a fashion photography producer and has collected and studied vintage clothing for over a decade.

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A significant contribution to helping us understand better how and why fashion became more casual throughout the twentieth century … Accessible and engaging [and] well organized into sections which could be excerpted as course readings.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beach Pajama OriginsEastern Pajamas and the Western ImaginationSleeping Pajamas and Lounging PajamasThe Ballets RussesPaul Poiret and the jupe-culotteEarly Gym Wear and Swimwear2. Beach Pajamas: 1919-1927The Advent of Beach Pajamas: “No More Sunburned Knees”The Rise of Resort Culture The Lido: “Pajamaland”Pajamas on American BeachesEarly Beach Pajama StylesControversy: “She Shocked Palm Beach!”Mary Nowitzky3. Beach Pajamas: 1927-1939The French Riviera: “The Chic World Turns Proletarian”Sporting and the Rise of AthleticismNautical StyleSun WorshipThe Great Depression: Ready-to-wear, Tubfast, and HomesewnWorkwear Influences4. Beach Pajamas’ InfluencePajamas and ModernityCollegiate FashionsEvening and Formal PajamasHollywood: “Over the Footlights to the Public”The Beginnings of American SportswearConclusionBibliographyIndex