Writings and fashion sections in Yucatan’s press: foreign fashion adherents’ refinement and aesthetical sensibility, 1840-1920

The present article analyses an assortment of writings and fashion sections published by the Yucatan’s press since 1840 to 1920. These texts were a part of a didactical discourse aimed to encourage refinement and aesthetical sensibility among Yucatan’s people. The  authors of these texts acted as cu...

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Autor: Vanegas Durán, Claudia Marcela
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/70468
Acceso en línea:https://moderna.historicas.unam.mx/index.php/ehm/article/view/70468
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:intermediarios culturales
prensa
Yucatán
moda
atavío
cultural middlemen
press
fashion
adornments
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Sumario:The present article analyses an assortment of writings and fashion sections published by the Yucatan’s press since 1840 to 1920. These texts were a part of a didactical discourse aimed to encourage refinement and aesthetical sensibility among Yucatan’s people. The  authors of these texts acted as cultural middlemen between European fashion and local customs by guiding readers in the multifarious and changing clothes and accessories offerings that began to be traded in local stores and workshops. The analyzed texts reveal how fashion was a way through which modern and civilized life got adopted, a fact that identify garments as a social and refinement distinction mark, particularly for elite groups or for those aspiring to become part of them.