This Sporting Cloth: Tweed, Gender and Fashion 1860-1900

Anderson, Fiona

This Sporting Cloth: Tweed, Gender and Fashion 1860-1900

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Anderson, Fiona (2006) This Sporting Cloth: Tweed, Gender and Fashion 1860-1900. Textile History, 37 (2). pp. 166-186. ISSN 0040-4969
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Creators/Authors:

Anderson, Fiona

Abstract:

This article explores the manufacturing, design and consumption of tweed cloth in relation to issues of gender in the late nineteenth century. It focuses on tweed produced on mainland Scotland by factory methods and the wider influence of that industry on woollen manufacturers in other areas of Britain. Exploring the history of this textile reveals the shifting ambiguities linked to male and female social and sartorial identities and the gender coding of tweed in the late nineteenth century.

Official URL:

https://doi.org/10.1179/004049606x132087

Uncontrolled Keywords:

tweed, gender, fashion, gender coding, woollen textiles

School/Academic Area:

School of Design > Design History and Theory

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November 2006

Published

19 July 2013