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I am currently working on an article for an anthology; about Swedish sumptuary laws from the Middle Ages and up to the last one 1830 (or something like that). It is actually quite fun. I've felt for a long time that I never do anything that hasn't been done before in this project, but now I feel that I am. Of course they have been studied before, but generally either as sources for how people dressed or  in a national economic context. I'm interested in what they say about the relations between clothes, gender and class. I also cover the whole period, which I don't think anyone has done before. 
The article does not in any way deal with all these topics exhaustively, I draw up some broader lines and then I concentrate on two separate "case studies": Women's sexual moral in sumptuary laws and the intersection between gender and class in 18th century sumptuary laws. I actually think that I will be able to finish it and that it will be quite interesting when finished.

The other fun thing I'm referring to is looking through probate inventories from 1694, which I did on Tuesday. There is NO way I could do a comprehensive survey of clothing in those, there is just so much, but I'm going to have a look at sample years for at least the 17th century. First I have to write a little more on the article and then make a large sheet with little boxes saying things like "red glazed wool dress" so that I can go through the material in an organized way.

Date: 2011-11-18 06:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com
speaking of papers...I read your article this morning in Costume! Fabulous, and with the pics too!

Date: 2011-11-19 09:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frualeydis.livejournal.com
It still doesn't feel real. You only get a pdf of your article and my university library hasn't got Costume, so I haven't seen it for real.

/Eva

Date: 2011-11-20 12:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] estela-dufrayse.livejournal.com
it looked very real to me! exciting to see a name there of someone I actually know, instead of just knowing of!
congratulations!

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