Fashion in the Fairy Tale Tradition What Cinderella Wore /

• Main Author: Do Rozario, Rebecca-Anne C. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Fiction.; Children's literature.; Culture.; Gender.; Children's Literature.; Culture and Gender.

This book is a journey through the fairy-tale wardrobe, explaining how the mercurial nature of fashion has shaped and transformed the Western fairy-tale tradition. Many of fairy tale's most iconic images are items of dress: the glass slippers, the red capes, the gowns shining like the sun, and...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Rise of Fashionable Fairy Tales: A Noble Fabrication
• 2. Fashion Felons I: Leading La Mode
• 3. Fashion Felons II: Breaking All the Fashion Rules
• 4. Skills with Threads: Heroes who Make Fashion
• 5. Shoes, the Sole of Fairy Tale: Stepping Between Desire and Damnation
• 6. What the Fairies Wore: Sartorial Means and Blackest Villains
• 7. Conclusion: The Fairy Tale Undressed.