The Labile Self
Marina Warner: Dressing Up, 5 January 2012
Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe
by Ulinka Rublack.
Oxford, 354 pp., £30, October 2011,978 0 19 929874 7 Show More
by Ulinka Rublack.
Oxford, 354 pp., £30, October 2011,
“... miasma of his rakish misdeeds is recognisable from the fashion plates in the costume books that Ulinka Rublack vividly explores in Dressing Up. She is a Venetian courtesan, carrying a huge fan of feathers, her pert breasts hoisted above her farthingale to show them off. Clothes and morals, dress and identity – both national (ethnicity) and social ... ”