High London Couture

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Title

High London Couture

Subject

Eugene Onegin: "Reading Fashion" 

Description

Tatyana's transformation into the city's fashionable elite, following European standards.

Creator

Elizabeth LaFave

Source

Text: Alexander Pushkin; Eugene Onegin

Source: Костюм в Русский Художественной Культуре

Publisher

Text: Oxford's World Classics
Image: Большая Советская Энициклопедия

Text

«но с головы до ног

Никто бы в ней найти не мог

Того, что модой самовластной

В высоком лондонском кругу

Зовется vulgar» (8, XV, 192). 


“But neither did her form contain,

From head to toe, the slightest strain

Of what, with fashion’s sense of duty,

The London social sets decry

As vulgar” (Chapter 8, Stanza 15, Page 192). 

Citation

Elizabeth LaFave, “High London Couture,” Collections @ ECU, accessed November 21, 2024, http://collections.ecu.edu/items/show/597.

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