Regional Dress

List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Maps
Introduction

1. Religious Performance
Relationship between religion and dress
Processions and the performance of Catholicism
Performance of Protestantism
Other minority religious groups
Exclusion of minority religions from public spaces
Dress as ritual
Declining link between regional dress and religious observance

2. Visual Representation
Field guide to the folk
Photography of regional dress
Realism and regional dress
Book illustrations
Art Nouveau and the Alsatian Awakening
Spindler as photographer and ethnologue
Development of l'Alsacienne as a symbol of Alsace

3. Material Goods
Basic components of rural Alsatian wardrobes
Shift to coordinating outfits
Quantity and value of clothing
Evolution of special occasion wear
Development of retail in Alsace
Introduction of department stores
Home based industrial production
Education and apprenticeship for craftspeople
Apprenticeships in the interwar period
Tailoring and dressmaking in literature

4. Museum Objects
Roots of folk museums
Founding of the Musee alsacien
The collection and its acquisition
Nature of the early displays
Producing and reproducing the image of regional culture
Kermesse: masquerade and commerce

5. Living History
Non-religious festivals
Wedding processions
Turn-of-the-century festivals
Folklorization of Fete-Dieu
Folk dress in political rallies
Organization of folk groups
Nazi influence on folklore
Re-emergence of interest in folklore

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• História da moda
• Cultura material
• História regional e nacional

Alsace; Germany; France; Rural; Political; Class; Division; Clothing; Folk dress; Traditional dress