Historical Dress in London and Paris
This program is a fashion history course primarily focused on western dress. This course will greatly enrich students being immersed in Paris and London, as both are epicenters of clothing and fashion trend history and a pivotal part of the course content. Students will survey of historic modes of dress from the late 18th to the 21st centuries, as that clothing reflects the environment and cultural life of people, and change within the fashion industry. Student wills understand and apply knowledge about the interrelationships among historic, sociocultural, technological, and psychological factors of dress and their impact on human behavior, including the effects of life stages, change across time, and culture. The course begins with the French Revolution and its impact on the garments worn by the revolutionary Sans Culottes. The French influences of Marie Antoinnette, Napoleon, and Empress Josephine are explored as well as Charles Frederick Worth and the beginnings of the Chambre Syndicale. English clothing history is shown through the influences of Beau Brummel and the Prince Regent and continues through the current clothing influences of the royal family. (H course)