How Long to Read Fashion After Capital

How Long Does it Take to Read Fashion After Capital?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Fashion After Capital by T’ai Smith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Fashion may be widely known as the 'child of capitalism', but to fully grasp how and why, we must return to the birth of the fashion economy in the 19th century. Using Karl Marx's discussion of the frock coat – a bourgeois menswear staple – as a focal point, this book examines the philosophies of clothing that began taking shape in art, literature and politics in capitalist 19th-century Europe and America. Telling the story of fashion and capitalism from multiple viewpoints – through Marxism, 19th-century visual culture and historic commentary on dress – Fashion After Capital connects primary visual artefacts, such as diagrams, patterns, plates and paintings, to the backdrop of the new economic mode of readymade clothing and the accelerated rhythm of fashion. Providing an interdisciplinary reading of modern fashion economies through the detailed analysis of a single garment, Smith argues that fashion was not just a result of but was central to the capitalist mode of production; the frock coat comes to symbolise Marx's theory of the commodity and capitalist flows. Also examining other key thinkers such as Hegel, Carlyle, Engels, Mallarmé and Duchamp, we see compelling connections between texts and images and approach 19th-century fashion from a new perspective. Situating dress studies within the broader context of socio-political and economic transition, this book makes a fascinating contribution to nineteenth-century fashion studies and beyond.

How long is Fashion After Capital?

Fashion After Capital by T’ai Smith is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fashion After Capital Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Fashion After Capital aloud.

What Reading Level is Fashion After Capital?

Fashion After Capital is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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