Fashion, nationalism, and Austro-Hungarian images of Paris during the long nineteenth century

• Alexander Maxwell ^[1]
  1. [1] Victoria University of Wellington

     Victoria University of Wellington

     Nueva Zelanda

     
• Localización: Contemporanea: Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900, ISSN 1127-3070, Anno 20, Nº. 4 (ottobre-dicembre), 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The clothing of politics (XIXth-XXth centuries)), págs. 541-568
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Patriotic anxieties about the hegemony of Parisian fashions provoked a nationalist reaction in the Habsburg Empire, as elsewhere. At first, Habsburg patriots rejected everchanging fashions and promoted instead a static national costume. As the fashion and textile industries progressed, however, patriots took increasing interest in creating national fashions, and thus in promoting their own capital as a rival to the French metropolis. In the multi-national Habsburg Empire, different national groups took a different attitude toward Vienna. Austrian Germans promoted Vienna as a rival to Paris. Czechs feared and attacked Viennese dominance, much as Austrian Germans attacked Paris. Hungarians, meanwhile, focused on promoting Budapest.