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Would You Like to Review Oriental Dress and Design in the West?

August 7, 2018 Sara Catterall Leave a comment

For review copies, visit the Indiana University Press page for media requests !

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Happy #internationalwomensday ! Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was one of Jirousek's favorite historical figures. She was the first educated English woman to travel to Constantinople and write about her experiences, and she introduced a method of smallpox inoculation from there to London in 1721.

Princess Fawzia and Princess Faiza, sisters of King Farouk. The glamorous princesses were much photographed, leading to a fashion for turbans and hats with similarly face-framing drapery. * * (Still from British Pathe film, "King Farouk Opens Cairo Fair" 1949)

It's publication day! Available from all good book sellers. 900 years of cultural exchange, viewed through the visual language of dress. Link in profile. @iu.press @saracatterall

The sensational discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamen in 1922 sparked a mania for anything Egyptian. Films combined ancient Egyptian imagery with large doses of standard Orientalist fantasy about the more recent Middle East. (“Theda Bara,”Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.)

Early silent film portrayed "Oriental" settings of all kinds. Certain stars, such as Rudolph Valentino and Theda Bara, made their careers playing exotic roles that inspired popular fashion. (United Artists. Rudolph Valentino in The Son of Sheik,” 1926. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.)

“Dieu! Qu’il fait froid—manteau d’hiver de Paul Poiret,” 1913. Picture Collection, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

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