The business of fashion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Giovanni Luigi Fontana and José Miranda
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Giovanni Luigi Fontana: Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova, Italy

Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, 2016, vol. 12, issue 02, 68-75

Abstract: Fashion is a complex social and cultural phenomenon with strong economic implications. Historical analysis reveals that the mechanisms of creating and spreading fashion have not remained constant, but have varied according to social structures, forms of producing and distributing apparel and social media, while the level of influence of fashion on society has increased in line with economic development. This special issue of Investigaciones de Historia Económica-Economic History Research is dedicated to fashion as an economic phenomenon in the contemporary period. The four articles which make it up show the plurality of the subject areas, sources and methodological approaches in the current research on this topic. KEY Classification-JEL: N60. N82. N84

Keywords: Fashion.; Business; history.; Apparel; and; footwear; industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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