Fashion's Dressing Room

Title

Fashion's Dressing Room

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion"

Description

Eugene Onegin, a pupil of the highest fashion trends centered around London and Paris, boasted an expansive wardrobe.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin 
Image: Красавец мужчина. Русский модник XVIII – начала ХХ века / Авт. –сост. Н.М. Виноградова.

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: M. Исторический музей

Text

«Уединенный кабинет,

Где мод воспитанник примерный

Одет, раздет и вновь одет?

Всё, чем для прихоти обильной

Торгует Лондон щепетильный

И по Балтическим волнам

За лес и сало возит нам,

Всё, что в Париже вкус голодный,

Полезный промысел избрав,

Изобретает для забав,

Для роскоши, для неги модной, -

Всё украшало кабинет

Философа в осьмнадцать лет» (1, XXIII, 14).



“The room where fashion’s model pupil

Is dressed, undressed, and dressed again?

Whatever clever London offers

To those with lavish whims and coffers,

And ships to us by Baltic seas

In trade for tallow and for trees;

Whatever Paris, seeking treasure,

Devises to attract the sight,

Or manufactures for delight,

For luxury, for modish pleasure—

All this adorned his dressing room,

Our sage of eighteen summers’ bloom” (Chapter 1, Stanza 23, Page 14). 


 

 

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Date Added
September 24, 2017
Collection
"Reading" Fashion in A. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Word as Image in 1820s Imperial Russia
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Citation
Elizabeth LaFave, “Fashion's Dressing Room,” Collections @ ECU, accessed April 26, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/610.