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The business of fashion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

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  • Giovanni Luigi Fontana

    (Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padova, Italy)

  • José Antonio Miranda

    (Department of Applied Economic Analysis, University of Alicante, Spain)

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

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  • Giovanni Luigi Fontana & José Antonio Miranda, 2016. "The business of fashion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries," Investigaciones de Historia Económica - Economic History Research (IHE-EHR), Journal of the Spanish Economic History Association, Asociación Española de Historia Económica, vol. 12(02), pages 68-75.
    • Handle: RePEc:ahe:invest:v:12:y:2016:i:02:p:68-75
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    Keywords

    Fashion. Business history. Apparel and footwear industry;

    JEL classification:

    • N60 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - General, International, or Comparative
    • N82 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
    • N84 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History - - - Europe: 1913-

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