PROFILES OF THE PAST: SILHOUETTES, FASHION & IMAGE 1760 – 1960

Joint Project

University of Brighton & Regency Town House, Hove, UK

Year 2013

Pages 112

After a useful introduction to silhouettes the next seven chapters look at various aspects of the subject: hair and headdresses in late 18th century women’s silhouettes; the male silhouette c. 1790-1820; the impact of neoclassicism on silhouette art in the late 18th century; fashion, ageing and identity in Regency silhouettes; the silhouette as portrait and conversation piece in the late 1830s and 1840s; the ‘feminisation’ of female dress 1890-1914; and Hubert Leslie, Baron Scotford and 20th century silhouette portraiture. The Conclusion brings the silhouette into the 21st century. How far the silhouette can be reliably used for the study of dress history is uncertain but there is no doubt that some of these portraits can reveal interesting and sometimes unexpected insights.

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