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Author:   Nancy Micklewright (Research Associate)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 19.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781350454842

ISBN 10:   1350454842
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Setting the Stage Decentering Fashion History Fashion Photography Who lived in Ottoman Istanbul Istanbul as a global city Enslavement and the harem What’s in, what’s not The book’s structure 2. Picturing Fashion and Understanding Dress: The Sources Visual Sources: Painting and book illustration Visual Sources: Photography Written Sources The Garments: Museum Collections of Ottoman women’s dress 3. The Garments: Tailoring, Construction and Transformation Elite women’s dress in 18th century Istanbul: Tailoring and construction Elite women’s dress in 18th century Istanbul: the textiles and the garments Dress in the first decades of the 19th century Transformations 4. Acceleration of Change: The dress, the photograph and Ottoman weddings Working with historic photographs: the bindalli example The Bindalli dress and changes over time Bindalli embroidery The white wedding dress Wedding photography Ottoman weddings: Who wore what 5. The Fashion Economy in Istanbul Hanimefendi: the Ottoman consumer Interaction with European women Ottoman women among themselves Fashion Media New clothes and shopping 6. The Tastemakers Who’s who: Understanding the cast of characters Fehime Sultan The Occasions Palace Wardrobes 7. The Elusive Fashion Stories of Enslaved Women and Domestic Servants Enslaved women and their clothing The Visual Evidence The texts The Garments 8. Dressing for Work Education and Work for Women in late Ottoman Istanbul Looking for the dress of Ottoman women at work Ottoman working women Dressing for the street Afterword: The Afterlife of Ottoman Dress Dress in the first decade of the Turkish Republic The bindalli dress as folk costume and later Fashion tastemakers, the 21st century version The Magnificent Century and 21st century wedding dresses Bibliography Index

Reviews

Exploring both object and image, this is a book that shines the spotlight onto communities of women so often neglected in traditional histories. The identity through dress of women in Ottoman Istanbul is explored beautifully and deftly by Nancy Micklewright, examining their lives through the clothes they chose to wear. * Kate Strasdin, Senior Lecturer, Falmouth University, UK * This engaging book eschews a Eurocentric focus while showing how Ottomans innovated with European-origin fashion and technology … The rich array of sources that Micklewright has marshalled demonstrates how Ottoman women participated in the production of the visual culture that has allowed us a window into their practices. * Marilyn Booth, Professor Emerita, University of Oxford, UK * With depth and sensitivity, Micklewright reminds us that fashion history belongs to all layers of society. This book—born of years of meticulous research and archival work—offers a democratic lens on Ottoman dress and visual culture, revealing how early photography captured lived realities and how the nineteenth-century world grew smaller through the circulation of images and styles. * Lale Görünür, Curator, Sadberk Hanim Museum, Turkey *

Author Information

Nancy Micklewright writes primarily about the history of photography and fashion history in the Ottoman Empire with a focus on gender. She was most recently a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Istanbul, working on a new project, Dressing the Republic: Women and Fashion in 1920s Türkiye. Previously she has received research fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Pasold Research Fund and the American Research Institute in Turkey. She is the former Head of Public and Scholarly Engagement for the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art., US.

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