Framing Devices: The Production and Consumption of Woven Ribbon Borders in Late Qing Women's Clothing

这个项目将调查编织丝带在晚清(1860-1911)时尚体系中所起的作用，包括它们是如何被用来装帧女装的，它们的生产如何涉及到与西方商人的贸易，以及这如何影响服装生产和时尚。我将结合视觉文化、文学和经济来源的分析，以及对V&A(伦敦)和中国纺织服装文化中心(台北)现存物品的研究，了解这些无处不在的装饰品是如何在中国时尚体系中使用的，以及日益全球化和商业化如何影响汉族女性的时尚。

This project will investigate the role that woven ribbon borders played in the fashion system of the late Qing (1860-1911), including how they were used to frame women's clothing, how their production involved trade with Western merchants, and how this affected clothing production and fashion. I will combine analysis of visual culture, literary and economic sources, and study of extant objects in the V&A (London) and Chinese Textiles and Clothing Culture Center (Taipei), making sense of how these ubiquitous trimmings were used in the Chinese fashion system and how increased globalization and commercialization affected the fashions of Han Chinese women.