Code
01D15522
Duration
01 October 2022 → 30 September 2026
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Cultural history
- Literatures in English
- Literatures in French
- History of art
- Interior architecture history and theory
- Fashion design
Keywords
undress
orientalism
interiority
interior dress
historicisim
Belle Époque
Project description
During the late nineteenth century, kimonos were favoured dressing gowns and many tea-gowns contained elements inspired by Antiquity, the Middle Ages or the eighteenth century. Paradoxically, these female garments evoking distant times and places were bound to the home. Through an object-based study of clothing and an analysis of written clothing, this research examines the link between interior gowns, wearer, domestic interior and the ‘Other’.