Novoe plat'e imperii. Istoriya Rossiyskoy modnoy industrii, 1700-1917

Monografiya Kristin Ruan posvyaschena istorii mody v Rossii. Sredi obshirnyh istochnikov etogo issledovaniya - gosudarstvennye statisticheskie otchety, modnye katalogi i zhurnaly, dokumenty pervyh shveynyh profsoyuzov, issledovaniya po istorii kostyuma, a takzhe literaturnye proizvedeniya i memuary. "Novoe plat'e imperii" ne prosto znakomit chitatelya s razvitiem rossiyskoy mody, no i vvodit ego v mir slozhnyh social'no-ekonomicheskih, politicheskih i kul'turnyh processov v Rossiyskoy imperii. Tak, naprimer, avtor ne prosto konstatiruet vneshnee razlichie mezhdu evropeyskoy i russkoy odezhdoy nachala XVIII veka, a obraschaetsya k istinnoy prichine resheniya Petra I "pereodet'" Rossiyu, v osnove kotorogo byla v pervuyu ochered' ideya ekonomicheskoy modernizacii strany. V Rossii sozdavalas' svoya legkaya promyshlennost', i "novoe plat'e imperii" dolzhno bylo stimulirovat' ee razvitie.