Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents
(Part of the Costume Society of America Series Series)
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Form-fitting dresses, silk veils, earrings, furs, high-heeled shoes, make-up, and dyed, flowing hair. It is difficult for a contemporary person to reconcile these elegant clothes and accessories with the image of cloistered nuns. For many of the some thousand nuns in early modern Venice, however, these fashions were the norm. Often locked in convents without any religious calling--simply to save their parents the expense of their dowry--these involuntary...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0896728293
ISBN13:9780896728295
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Texas Tech University Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 8.3"
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