Modest apparel Mennonite clothing in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1800-1900

Posted on:2016-05-17

Degree:M.A

Type:Thesis

University:University of Delaware

Candidate:Pyle, Victoria Anne

Full Text:PDF

GTID:2475390017475814

Subject:American history

Abstract/Summary:

This paper will examine Mennonite dress and ideas of plainness throughout the nineteenth century in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. These ideas include religious plainness as expressed by the Quakers as well as secular expressions of plain and simple lifestyles in reaction to the consumerist focus of the nineteenth century. Mennonites conflated "fashion" with vanity and pridefulness---worldliness. The adoption of plain dress shows the wearer's abandonment of those worldly values in favor of a simpler, more Christ-like, way of life. These sentiments took shape in the last part of the nineteenth century alongside several secular movements reacting against the mainstream Victorian material culture and supporting the return to a minimalist lifestyle.

Keywords/Search Tags:

Nineteenth century

Related items

1	Engrafting Modernity: Daktari in Nineteenth Century Bengal, c.-1830--c.1900
2	THE RECIPROCITY OF SPACE AND SELF IN FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELISTS: JANE AUSTEN, GEORGE ELIOT, CHARLES DICKENS, AND THOMAS HARDY
3	Nineteenth Century German Culture Review
4	The First Half Of The Nineteenth Century To The Twentieth Century Maritime Foreign Market Novel Study
5	Geology and God: Examining the relationship between the scientific and the sacred in nineteenth-century England
6	Tears of blood: Melodrama, the novel, and the social imaginary in nineteenth-century Japan
7	The cultural constitution of the post-republic: Eighteenth-century politics and nineteenth-century literary form
8	Viewing Europe from the outside: Cultural encounters and European culture critiques in the eighteenth-century pseudo-oriental travelogue and the nineteenth-century 'Voyage en Orient
9	A Transcendentalist Reading Of Margaret Fuller’s Woman In The Nineteenth Century
10	Performing madness: The representation of insanity in nineteenth and twentieth century theatre, from Jean-Martin Charcot to Marguerite Duras