Theatre and Fashion

This is the first book to explore the complex relationship among theater fashion and society in the late Victorian and early modern eras. Examining such diverse topics as the emergence of the society playhouse fashion journalism the role of the couturier-costumier department store marketing and the establishment of dress codes by militant suffragettes Kaplan and Stowell provide a new context for assessing plays by established writers such as Oscar Wilde Bernard Shaw Arthur Pinero and Harley Granville Barker as well as lesser know figures such as Edith Lyttelton Emily Symonds and Cicely Hamilton.