The Women of 'Little Paris'

Fashion in Interwar Bucharest

Sonia-Doris Andras (Independent Scholar, Independent scholar)

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English

Bloomsbury Visual Arts
09 January 2025

Fashion & society; Gender studies: women

Series: Dress Cultures

Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic ‘Little Paris’ of interwar Bucharest, and examines how their material and cultural means supported the city’s modernisation.

Combining archival research with personal archaeology, this interdisciplinary work explores Romania’s reinvention as a modern state, focusing on middle-class women as they lived their lives - walking through the streets, at lavish events, at cafes and clubs, shopping, and working. Analysing largely unseen, unused written and visual texts, The Women of 'Little Paris' encourages exploration of new avenues for research, uniting scholars of Romanian culture, history and fashion and guiding readers through a forgotten, little explored world and, in so doing, adds to our understanding and knowledge of the global image of interwar fashion cultures and the emerging field of Romanian fashion studies.

By: Sonia-Doris Andras (Independent Scholar Independent scholar)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781350294455
ISBN 10: 1350294454
Series: Dress Cultures
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sonia-Doris Andras is a postdoctoral fashion researcher, primarily focusing on themes related to fashion, gender, urban cultures and modernity in a Romanian context. She has a PhD from London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK. She is Associate Researcher within the research project The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian – American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) at the “Gheorghe Sincai” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities in Târgu-Mures, Romania.

Reviews for The Women of 'Little Paris': Fashion in Interwar Bucharest

In this interdisciplinary book, Sonia-Doris Andras analyses an impressive array of visual and written materials, including the archive of her own family. The result is an original portrayal of modernising interwar Romania through the representations and self-representations of its middle-class fashionistas. * Magdalena Craciun, University of Bucharest, Romania * An exemplar of the more nuanced, multifarious and plural Fashion Studies today, The Women of 'Little Paris' is remarkable for its consideration of fashion and all the visual arts, as well as popular and urban culture, literature and the press. The work is a fitting memorial to one of the experts in this field, the late Djurda Bartlett. * Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *