Some Modern Accessories

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Some Modern Accessories Veil Veil's emergence in Paris was produced by a set of bourgeois expectations about class, ethnicity, femininity, sexuality, and the role of women in the urban life. The emergence of the veil in France at this time articulates the relationship between the bourgeois woman and the burgeoning modern city of late nineteenth century Paris—a city that emerged under the urban development projects and constructions. As a result, as a protection against the harmful consequences of the dust caused by these constructions and projects on bourgeois women's health, veil was advertised as a practical solution to this threat by both medical and fashion perspectives. In addition, in the literal context in 19th century, dirt is also associated with prostitution. Therefore, veil also became a class signifier used to distinguish the proper woman from the prostitute. The expectation of the proper bourgeois women's make-up had to remain subtle, as a means of distinguishing herself from prostitutes. Wearing a veil would allow a woman to appear more respectable. The popularity of veil can also be associated with colonial culture in the 19th century as veil comes from the Muslin veil. And its revision shows a general move toward the orient and interest in the orient both economically and fashion wise. However, it’s interesting to think that the Muslim veil granted Islamic women vision and limited their visibility, whereas the veiled bourgeoisie was bodily visible yet her vision was filtered through the lace of her veil. Fan Like the veil, fan as another important accessory in the 19th century plays an important role in the visibility and perception. With its dual functionality, fan always plays with concealing and revealing. Women at this time had only limited body parts exposed and one of them, fairly erotic, could be the wrist. To have a
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