The business of fashion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Authors

  • Giovanni Luigi Fontana
  • José Antonio Miranda

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2016.03.017

Keywords:

Fashion, Business history, Apparel and footwear industry, N60, N82, N84

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.

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How to Cite

Fontana, G. L., & Miranda, J. A. (2019). The business of fashion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Investigaciones De Historia Económica, 12(2), 68–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ihe.2016.03.017

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SPECIAL ISSUE