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2009
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Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net ; no. 55 (2009)
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Dress Costume Clothes Style in dress Dress Dressing (Clothing) Apparel Clothing Garments Clothing and dress, Primitive Clothes mode vestimentaireCiter ce document
Margaret Stetz, « “Would You Like Some Victorian Dressing with That?” », Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, ID : 10.7202/039557ar
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This article challenges scholars to look beyond conventional audiences for Victorian studies and to go beyond conventional subjects, into the world of Victorian and Neo-Victorian fashion. It holds up the career of Dr. Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, as a model for how to conduct historical research into Victorian clothing and how to bring the results of that research to a broader public. It encourages academics to use the Internet to connect with a non-academic public that is already engaged with the Victorians through the medium of clothing, and it urges readers in general to see Neo-Victorian “mashup” dressing as an opportunity for serious exchange of knowledge about nineteenth-century culture.