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Resplendent dress from Southeastern Europe : a history in layers / Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Barbara Belle Sloan ; with essays by Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Joyce Corbett, Elsie Dunin, Charlotte Jirousek, Barbara Belle Sloan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Fowler Museum textile series ; no. 11.Publication details: Fowler Museum of Cultural History 2013Description: 275 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 9780984755035 (soft cover)
  • 0984755039 (soft cover)
  • 9780984755042 (hard cover)
  • 0984755047 (hard cover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391.009496 23 SID-B-9917
LOC classification:
  • GT1280 .B37 2013
Contents:
Map of Southeastern Europe -- Timeline / Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- From string skirt to thirty pounds of walking history: a twenty-thousand-year-old tradition of dress / Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- Ottoman influence in Balkan dress / Charlotte Jirousek -- Thread and living traditions: the embroiderer's art in Central and Southeastern Europe / Joyce Corbett -- After the ashes of war: continuity and change in the costume, music, and dance of a Croatian village / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- Festive dress and dance events in the Romani community of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 1967 and 2011 / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- The stories behind the clothes / Barbara Belle Sloan -- Descriptions of items included in ensembles.
Summary: In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These extremely colorful and intensely worked garments were often adorned with embroidery, lace, metallic threads, coins, sequins, beads, and, perhaps most importantly, fringe, a symbolic marker of fertility. Over time new forms of dress were added so that by 1900, a southeastern European village woman's apparel consisted of millennia of layered history. Even today this dress continues to be worn on festive occasions and by older people in rural areas. Lavishly illustrated, Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe features fifty stunning nineteenth- through twentieth-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, and neighboring countries, plus one hundred individual items including aprons, vests, jackets, and robes. Elizabeth Wayland Barber traces this twenty-thousand-year tradition of dress in fascinating detail.
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Books Books Symbiosis Institute of Design On Display 391.009496 SID-B-9917 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SID-B-9917

Exhibition held at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif., March 10-July 14, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-267) and index.

Map of Southeastern Europe -- Timeline / Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- From string skirt to thirty pounds of walking history: a twenty-thousand-year-old tradition of dress / Elizabeth Wayland Barber -- Ottoman influence in Balkan dress / Charlotte Jirousek -- Thread and living traditions: the embroiderer's art in Central and Southeastern Europe / Joyce Corbett -- After the ashes of war: continuity and change in the costume, music, and dance of a Croatian village / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- Festive dress and dance events in the Romani community of Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, 1967 and 2011 / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- The stories behind the clothes / Barbara Belle Sloan -- Descriptions of items included in ensembles.

In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village dances garbed in resplendent attire. These extremely colorful and intensely worked garments were often adorned with embroidery, lace, metallic threads, coins, sequins, beads, and, perhaps most importantly, fringe, a symbolic marker of fertility. Over time new forms of dress were added so that by 1900, a southeastern European village woman's apparel consisted of millennia of layered history. Even today this dress continues to be worn on festive occasions and by older people in rural areas. Lavishly illustrated, Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe features fifty stunning nineteenth- through twentieth-century ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, and neighboring countries, plus one hundred individual items including aprons, vests, jackets, and robes. Elizabeth Wayland Barber traces this twenty-thousand-year tradition of dress in fascinating detail.

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