Public defence in Visual Culture, MA Anne-Kristine Sindvald-Larsen

The title of the thesis: Clothes, Culture and Crafts. Dress and Fashion among Artisans and Small Shopkeepers in the Danish town of Elsinore, 1550-1650

Doctoral student: Anne-Kristine Sindvald-Larsen
Opponent: Prof. Timothy McCall, Villanova University, USA
Custos: Prof. Paula Hohti, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art and Media

This thesis explores how Danish local artisans, such as goldsmiths, bakers, butchers, barbers, smiths, shoemakers, carpenters and coopers and their wives dressed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It investigates what kind of clothing and accessories artisans and small shopkeepers and their wives owned and wore, and what clothing meant to men and women of their rank. Moreover it explores what social, economic and cultural values and meanings might have been associated with fashion in the daily lives and during public and social occasions at this social level. The study show how artisans and their wives transformed their wealth, status, beliefs and fashion knowledge into their own personal wardrobes. It reveals that even though Denmark was on the fringes of Europe, fashion was an integral part of the society and became available for most social groups in this period.

Thesis available for public display 10 days prior to the defence at: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/doc_public/eonly/riiputus/

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