About appearance care:the fashion awakening in nineteenth century Rio

• Grant number: 16/03312-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: June 01, 2016
• End date: April 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Milena da Silveira Pereira
• Grantee: Mariana de Paula Cintra
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais (FCHS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Franca. Franca , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/14786-6 - Writings on new worlds: a history of the construction of moral values in Portuguese, AP.TEM

Abstract

With the arrival of the royal family and their court to the tropics, Rio de Janeiro became the most important city of ninetheenth century Brazil. At the opening of the harbors to friendly nations, the flow of foreign goods and people increased considerably and the daily lives of those who lived here incorporated some urbanity and modernization features. Based on the idea that the arrival of European professionals, especially the British and French, was responsible for introducing some habits unknown by Brazilians until then, this research aims to apprehend, through journals and adornments on the construction of chic and beautiful parameters in Rios fashion. We will start, therefore, whith the arrival of french stylists and dressmakers in the early nineteenth century that, in general, settled in stores at Ouvidor Street and there they offered all that could be of interest to the ladies: hats, gloves, dresses, fans, fines fabrics and assorted ornaments. We will attempt to investigate to what extent the French clothing offered by fashion designers, as well as those described in the journals, became, in the mid-century, objects of desire of the locals of the good society. In short, our purpose is to understand the contribution of the French garments for the creation of a womens fashion standard in the tropics, especially in Rio de Janeiro.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CINTRA, Mariana de Paula. Good seams, beautiful figures: a story of the awakening of fashion in the eighteenth century. 2018. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Franca Franca.