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EXTRAVAGANCES This page intentionally left blank Habits of Being accessorizing the body: habits of being 1 exchanging clothes: habits of being 2 fashioning the nineteenth century: habits of being 3 extravagances: habits of being 4 Extravagances CRISTINA GIORCELLI AND editors PAULA RABINOWITZ habits of being 4 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS . MINNEAPOLIS LONDON The publication of this book was supported by an Imagine Fund grant for the Arts, Design, and Humanities, an annual award from the University of Minnesota’s Provost Office. Excerpts from Omerosby Derek Walcott copyright 1990 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Copyright 2015 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401–2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data mmExtravagances / Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, editors. mm(Habits of being ; 4) mmIncludes bibliographical references and index. mmisbn978-0-8166-9728-1 (hc)—isbn978-0-8166-9729-8 (pb) mm1. Clothing and dress—History. 2. Dress accessories—History. 3. Fashion— mHistory. 4. Clothing and dress in literature. 5. Fashion in literature. 6. Wealth in mliterature. I. Giorcelli, Cristina. II. Rabinowitz, Paula. III. Abito e identità. mtt504.e95 2015 m646'.3—dc2 2015016661 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ToAnneHollander(1930–2014),generousfriendandmemorablecontributor This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface and Acknowledgments................................................. xiii Clothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade ........................................... xix Introduction worn out of bounds Paula Rabinowitz .......................................................... 1 1 When Women Speak ... Their Clothes Talk MARIAPIA BOBBIONI ............................................................... 10 2 An Accessory Is a Gesture in conversation with cristina giorcelli GUILLERMO MARIOTTO ............................................................. 20 3 Wearing a Crown PAOLA COLAIACOMO ................................................................ 27 4 Earrings in American Literature a showcase CRISTINA GIORCELLI ............................................................... 56
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