The Women of 'Little Paris': Womens Fashion in Interwar Bucharest

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Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic Little Paris of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the citys modernisation. Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romanias reinvention as a modern state, focusing on middle-class women as they lived their lives - walking through the streets, at lavish events, at cafes and clubs, shopping, and working. Analysing largely unseen, unused written and visual texts, The Women of 'Little Paris' encourages exploration of new avenues for research, uniting scholars of Romanian culture, history and fashion and guiding readers through a forgotten, little explored world and, in so doing, adds to our understanding and knowledge of the global image of interwar fashion cultures and the emerging field of Romanian fashion studies.

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Sonia-Doris Andras is an independent scholar based in Romania; she completed her PhD at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.