Hair & Dress in Imperial Russia

[Colleen McQuillen]

Dear Allison,

You might want to check out Raisa Kirsanova's books on costume and dress:

Kostium v russkoi khudozhestvennoi kulʹture 18-pervoi poloviny 20 vv.
: opyt entsiklopedii

Stsenicheskii kostium i teatralʹnaia publika v Rossii XIX veka

Russkii kostium i byt XVIII-XIX vekov

I don't think she deals explicitly with hair, but she does include
hats and other hair coverings. I'll be interested in hearing other
people's recommendations.

All the best,
Colleen

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Colleen McQuillen
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago
1628 University Hall, MC 306
Chicago, IL  60607


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Allison Leigh-Perlman
<lperlman at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend some good source material regarding the covering of
> female hair and its 'magical' qualities in 18th-century Russia or earlier?  I'm
> also interested in histories of costume/dress of the same time period.  Any
> recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Allison Leigh-Perlman
>
> Graduate Assistant
> Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
>
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