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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
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Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… the shoe as a worn material artefact that had a close relationship with the body, and which had an important role to play in social and gender relations. Shoes are items of dress, so they have a visual importance in terms of fashion. Much … has been written about the ‘renunciation’ in men’s fashion at this time, suggesting that the rejection of sartorial display constituted a revolution in masculinities. 4 But it is important to emphasise that these new fashions underlined … of the polite body. As such, it is vital to think about shoes as embodied objects. Shoes should not be studied or displayed in isolation, since they were fundamentally worn objects that had a very close relationship with the bodies that …
Dance | Dress | Elite | Gender | Shoes
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… say that it [the theatre] punishes and improves people’s morals. […] On the screen that comes down at the end of the play, there is a Latin saying that may be translated as follows: amusement improves the morals ʼ (al-Tahtawi, An Imam in … described the architecture of these theatres as magnificent houses surmounted by a great dome, with several floors, displaying the same wonder and appreciation, that he showed towards the city’s architecture, including squares, 6 bridges … promoter of the translation movement, which was taking shape at that time and he was keenly aware that translations played a pivotal role in spreading European thought: in 1863, he and his collaborators were charged by the khedivè …
Dress | Europe | France | Theatre | Travel
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