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Focusing on the long 19th century, a time of dramatic change in the Ottoman Empire, Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul: Photography and Identity in a Global City interrogates two key modes of visual culture: fashion and photography. The work contributes to an expanding body of research on fashion and the dressed body outside the Euro-American context, based on a meticulous analysis of three primary modes of evidence, visual, written and the material objects themselves.
Over the 19th century, the women of Istanbul gradually transformed their appearance, adopting European dress and new modes of self-fashioning, including photographs. The book reconstructs a complex fashion history, and the dramatic changes that took place in women's lives in this period, and given the diverse population of Istanbul in terms of ethnicity, class, race and religion, attends to the differing clothing habits of the women of the city. The book focuses particularly on elite women as fashion tastemakers and on the dress of enslaved and working women.
Appealing to scholars across a range of fields, including fashion history, Ottoman studies, women's and gender history, visual culture and photography history, Fashion in Late Ottoman Istanbul provides a fascinating insight into women's histories, writing and dress practices in a rapidly changing Istanbul.
| Published | 05 Mar 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350454859 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 71 colour and 30 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 246 x 189 mm |
| Series | Dress Cultures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
