{"id":3951,"date":"2020-07-10T14:38:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/?page_id=3951"},"modified":"2020-07-14T07:49:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:49:43","slug":"fashion-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/english\/dalziel\/fashion-and-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u201cThese pictures are almost like adverts, showing women off as a product rather than a living, breathing being [\u2026] women are shown in stereotypical light\u2026 elegant and pale [..] shaped by men and society to be like an easily manipulated object.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The above analysis of fashion plates from Ackermann\u2019s Repository<\/em> by a student from BACA shows one young critic using their sophisticated awareness of today’s image-obsessed culture to reflect on nineteenth-century fashion engravings. Rudolph Ackermann\u2019s print shops on London’s Strand were central to fashionable Regency life. From 1809 to 1829, he published his magazine Repository of the Arts<\/em> which combined fashion, luxury goods with historical, cultural and scientific subject matter. In the etched illustrations, often hand coloured with great care and subtlety, female figures are presented in the same style as luxury items. As the student’s critique explores, the balcony in the images above “cements the gentle and obedient aspects” <\/strong>of femininity – literally fencing the figure in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prints in this section date from the 1813 issue of Ackermann’s Repository<\/em>.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n