[Discussion] Producing Fashion

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Producing Fashion
Location: Delaware, United States

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT – OCT 28 & 29, 2005

Producing Fashion is the theme of the October 28 and 29 (Friday and 
Saturday)
conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Business, 
Technology, and
Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. The 
conference
includes fourteen papers that consider how fashion is produced on the 
level of
ideas, style and materials. The panel “National Identity and the 
Problem
of Paris” opens the conference with papers assessing the reaction 
against
French fashion that led to the development of distinctive national 
styles in the
United States, Austria, and Belgium. The papers in the “Early
Transnational Fashion” session look at the impact of new textiles 
and an
invigorated fashion press on clothing styles before 1900. The influence of
nostalgia on “modern” fashions in clothing, home 
furnishings, and
personal toiletries is the subject of the “Old-Fashioned 
Fashion”
panel that concludes Friday’s proceedings. Saturday begins with three
provocative papers on the influence of gender, ranging from the
“manly” advertising campaign that remade Marlboro 
cigarettes, the
development of men’s leisurewear, and the influence of feminism on the
marketing of beauty products to women. The conference closes, appropriately,
with a panel Remaking Contemporary Fashion with papers on style in Communist
Hungary and postwar France, and the dramatic impact of Lycra on clothing
worldwide.

Regular registration is $30, $20 for Hagley Associates and free for graduate
students. Lunches are $15 and Friday dinner $35. To register or obtain more
information (including the full program) contact Carol Lockman at 
302-658-2400,
ext. 243, or clockman@Hagley.org.

Carol Ressler Lockman
Hagley Center
PO Box 3630
Wilmington DE 19807

Phone: 302-658-2400, x243
Fax: 302-655-3188
Email: clockman@hagley.org