When Broadway was the runway [electronic resource] : theater, fashion, and American culture / Marlis Schweitzer.
Publication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.Description: 310 p. : illISBN:- 9780812241570 (alk. paper)
- 0812241576 (alk. paper)
- 9780812221633
- 9780812206166 (e-book)
- Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Costume -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Costume -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Fashion -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- Fashion -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
- Department stores -- New York (State) -- New York
- 792.09747/109041 22
- PN2277.N5 S39 2009eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-294) and index.
The octopus and the matinee girl -- The "department store theater" and the gendering of consumption -- "The cult of clothes" and the performance of class -- Fashioning the modern woman -- The theatrical fashion show on Broadway and Sixth Avenue.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.