An Intimate Affair
An Intimate Affair

Author: Jill Fields

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780520223691

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Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the 'fashion-industrial complex, ' and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet significant, intimate articles of clothing.

Beauty and Business
Beauty and Business

Author: Philip Scranton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1136692649

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Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to reckon with the ways that beauty has been made, bought and sold in modern America.

Cultures of Commerce
Cultures of Commerce

Author: E. Brown

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-19

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1137071826

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While historians have explored the impact on workers of changes in American business, the broader impact on other cultural forms, and vice versa, has not been widely studied. This anthology contributes to the debate at the intersection of business history and the study of cultural forms, ranging from material to visual culture to literature.

The Bon Marché
The Bon Marché

Author: Michael B. Miller

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9780691034942

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In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marché, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm relationships, he shows how this new business enterprise succeeded in reconciling traditional values with the coming of an age of mass consumption and bureaucracy.