Bibliography
This is our bibliography page. Here you can find a collection of sources that were used in our research on Belgian fashion, divided into sections.
Archival material
Cercle Commercial et Industriel. 1er et 2me Groupe: Groupe Tissage et Filatures de Lin et de Coton, Correspondance 1815-1903. 1885, Vliegende Bladen, BIB.VLBL.HFI.C.058.11/19.
Ghent: Boekentoren.
Simon, Antoinette. Retour de Paris Card. n.d., Vliegende Bladen, BIB.VLBL.HFII.M.096.05. Ghent: Boekentoren.
Simon, Antoinette. Retour de Paris Card. 1901, Vliegende Bladen, BIB.VLBL.HFII.M.85.3/11. Ghent: Boekentoren.
Books
Breman, Jan. Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism: A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
Brevik-Zender, Heidi, Helen Burnham, Guy Cogeval, and Gloria Groom. Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity. Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Cole, Daniel James and Nancy Deihl. The History of Modern Fashion from 1850. Laurence King Publishing, 2015
Coppens, Marguerite. Mode in België in de 19de Eeuw. Les Amis des Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1996.
Drèze, Gustave. Le Livre d'Or de l’Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Liège 1905. Comité Exécutif de la Société Anonyme de l'Exposition de Liège, 1905.
Edwards, Lydia. How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century. Bloomsbury, 2017.
Fukai, Akiko, and Jun Kanai. Japonism in Fashion. Kyoto Costume Institute, 1996.
Jacobs, Roel. Een geschiedenis van Brussel. Lannoo, 2004.
Mida, Ingrid, and Alexandra Kim. The Dress Detective: A Practical Guide to Object-Based Research in Fashion. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.
Nardo, Don. The Age of Colonialism. Lucent Books, 2006.
Pouillard, Véronique. Hirsch & Cie. Bruxelles, 1869–1962. Ed. University of Brussels, 2000.
Rose, Clare. Art Nouveau Fashion. V&A Publishing, 2014.
Sacks, Ruth. Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence. University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Chapter of an Edited Volume
Aderca, Bernard. “Cambier (René-François-Jacques).” In Belgian Overseas Biography 6, edited by Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, 1968.
Debackere, Dries. “Modieus Zwanger in de Late Negentiende Eeuw.” In M&Others Fashion and Motherhood, edited by Karen Van Godtsenhoven and Eve Demoen. Lannoo, 2024.
Sacks, Ruth. “Looking for the Congo in Style Congo: Art Nouveau and the African Colony.” In Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence. University of Michigan Press, 2023. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.11519375.7.
Ventura, Gal. “Breastfeeding Ideology and Clothing in Nineteenth-Century France.” In Dress and Ideology: Fashioning Identity from Antiquity to the Present, edited by Shoshana-Rose Marzel and Guy D. Stiebel. Bloomsbury, 2015.
Edited Volumes
Baloji, Sammy, Silvia Franceschini, Nikolaus Hirsch, Estelle Lecaille, eds. Style Congo: Heritage & Heresy. Spector Books, 2023.
Steele, Valerie, ed. The Berg Companion to Fashion. Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.
Wichmann, Siegfried. Japonisme: The Japanese influence on Western Art Since 1858. Thames & Hudson, 1999.
Journal Articles
Berthiaud, Emmanuelle. “La Santé Maternelle et Infantile (Europe, XVIe-XIXe Siècles): État des Lieux Historiographique et Bibliographique.” Annales de Démographie Historique 139, no. 1 (2020): 27-90. https://doi.org/10.3917/adh.139.0027.
Depuydt, Delphine E.C., Lawrence Billington, Carlos Fuentes, Nick Sweygers, Christine Dupont, Lise Appels, Jan Ivens, and Aart W. van Vuure. “European Bamboo Fibres for Composites Applications, Study on the Seasonal Influence.” Industrial Crops & Products 113 (2019): 304-305.
de ter Beerst, A. Joos. “Le Rite des Relevailles: l’Inscription d’une Coupure?” Le Bulletin Freudien 62 (2017): 83-91.
Dratwa, Daniel. “Tailleurs et Couturières. La Maison Hirsch.” Les Cahiers de la Fonderie, no. 15 (1993): 31-33.
Forster, Sam Vettese, and Robert M. Christie. “The Significance of the Introduction of Synthetic Dyes in the Mid 19th Century on the Democratisation of Western Fashion.” Journal of the International Colour Association 11 (2013): 1-17.
Gualtieri, Elena. “Kodak Modernism: Avant-Garde Poetry in the Age of Popular Photography.” Modernist Cultures 7, no. 2 (2012): 180-204.
Hulin de Loo, Georges. “Le ‘Mont-Des-Arts,’ Un Crime Contre Bruxelles.” Bulletins de l’Académie Royale de Belgique 19 (1937): 31-36. https://doi.org/10.3406/barb.1937.51660.
Jaumain, Serge. “Le Petit Commerce Bruxellois Face au Bonheur des Dames: Naissance de la Grande Distribution et Nouvelles Stratégies des Petits Détaillants (1870-1914).” Les Cahiers de la Fonderie, no. 3 (1987): 3-20.
Murphy, Ryan Francis. “Exterminating the Elephant in Heart of Darkness.” The Conradian 38, no. 2 (2013): 1-17.
Silverman, Debora L. “Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism, Part I.” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 18, no. 2 (2011): 139-181.
Silverman, Debora L. “Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism, Part II.” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 19, no. 2 (2012): 175-195.
Silverman, Debora L. “Diasporas of Art: History, the Tervuren Royal Museum for Central Africa, and the Politics of Memory in Belgium, 1885–2014.” The Journal of Modern History 87, no. 3 (2015): 615-667.
Taussif, Michael. “Redeeming Indigo.” Theory, Culture & Society 25, no. 3 (2008): 1-15.
Weisberg, Gabriel P. “Aspects of Japonisme.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 4 (1975): 120-30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152585.
Lectures
Paget, Camille, and Mathilde Semal. “Leçon de Mode No. 33: Mode & Art Nouveau.” Lecture presented at Salle de Milice Hôtel de Ville, Brussels, March 21, 2024.
News Articles
Deffet, Eric. “Mons: Ouvrir les Murs pour Mieux Respirer.” Le Soir, July 15, 2025. https://www.lesoir.be/art/936958/article/actualite/regions/hainaut/2015-07-15/mons-ouvrir-murs-pour-mieux-respirer.
“Layette Princiere.” La Meuse. November 4, 1901. KBR online collection Belgicapress. https://uurl.kbr.be/1206481.
L'Étoile Belge. September 25, 1878. KBR online collection Belgicapress. https://uurl.kbr.be/1739380.
L'Indépendance Belge. June 6, 1879. KBR online collection Belgicapress. https://uurl.kbr.be/1066336.
Saintghislain, Valéry. “Mons un Livre 'Évoque la Période 1860-1905, Capitale pour la Ville: Le Mons des Grands Travaux.” Le Soir, December 1, 2007. https://www.lesoir.be/art/%252Fle-mons-des-grands-travaux_t-20071201-00E089.html.
Thesis or Dissertations
Martinsen, Hanna Elisabeth Helvig. “Fashionable Chemistry: The History of Printing Cotton in France in the Second Half of the Eighteenth and First Decades of the Nineteenth Century.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Toronto, 2015.
Vanden Abeele, Elena. “Frivoliteit en Moderniteit: Parasols in de Lange 19de Eeuw: Een Analyse van de Collecties van het Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis en het Mode & Kant Museum in Brussel.” Master’s dissertation, KU Leuven, 2023.
Webpages
“1880.” Accessed April 22, 2025. https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1880-2/.
“19th Century.” Accessed May 8, 2025. https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/category/19th-century/.
“AGATHA: Genealogical Search Engine.” Accessed May 6, 2025. https://agatha.arch.be/search/genealogie/.
“AGATHA - Zoekomgeving van het Rijksarchief.” Accessed May 10, 2025. https://agatha.arch.be/.
Brussels Archives. “Trade almanacs.” Accessed April 28, 2025. https://archives.brussels.be/almanach/watch/AC/AC_1859_1860/AC_1859-1860_NOMS%20NAMEN#page/71.
“Brussel / Bruxelles | 1878 - 1878.” Accessed May 13, 2025. https://agatha.arch.be/data/images/541/541_9999_999_1706632_000/0_0026.
“Bustle.” Accessed April 28, 2025. https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/bustle/#:~:text=The%20early%201870s%20saw%20the,form%20from%20the%20early%201880s.
"Fashion Interiors. ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen.” Accessed March 28, 2025. https://www.momu.be/en/exhibitions/fashion-interiors."
Franklin, Harper. “1880-1889.” Last modified August 18, 2020. https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1880-1889/.
Geneanet. “Emma Mathilde Bach.” Accessed April 28, 2025. https://gw.geneanet.org/revin38?n=bach&oc=&p=emma+mathilde.
Huis van Alijn. "De Bruidsjurk." Last modified February 27, 2025. https://huisvanalijn.be/nl/collectie-item/de-bruidsjurk.
Ledecq, Marie-Christine. “La Vie Quotidienne à Nivelles au Début du XXe Siècle.” Accessed May 6, 2025. https://www.etudedumilieu.be/index_html_files/La_vie_quotidienne_a_Nivelles_au_debut_du_XXe_siecle.pdf.
“Lees Dit Boek en Je Kijkt Nooit Meer op Dezelfde Manier naar Je Spijkerbroek.” Accessed May 9 2025. https://decorrespondent.nl/9301/lees-dit-boek-en-je-kijkt-nooit-meer-op-dezelfde-manier-naar-je-spijkerbroek/6d5f3523-1692-0c16-2af3-477a15f7bae3.
“Les Boulevards.” Accessed April 21, 2025. https://www.lesmontoiscayaux.com/boulevards.
“Liège / Luik | 1843 - 1844.” Accessed May 13, 2025. https://agatha.arch.be/data/images/523/523_9999_999_1226219_000/0_0197.
LokStat. “Volkstelling 1900 – Nivelles (Nijvel): Geboorteplaats.” Accessed May 6, 2025. https://lokstat.ugent.be/print_vt1900.php?key=1913&naam=%20%20%20%20%20%20Nivelles%20(Nijvel)&territory=Gemeente&title=Geboorteplaats&tabel=geografischeherkomst&var=geografischeherkomst.
“Marriage Certificate Liège of Omer Cambier and Laure Folville. 1873.” Accessed May 6, 2025. https://agatha.arch.be/data/images/523/523_9999_999_1226312_000/0_0547.
Museum van de Stad Brussel. “12 - De Hofberg, Gezien in de Richting van de Benedenstad.” Accessed April 28, 2025. https://musea.brussels/mobile/index.php/nl/12-de-hofberg.
“The Mons Memorial Press Kit.” Accessed April 21, 2025. https://musees-expos.mons.be/a-propos/liens-footer/presse/dossiers-de-presse/mons-memorial-museum/parcours-permanent/dossier-de-presse-mons-memorial-museum-2024/dossier-de-presse-mons-memorial-museum/dp_mmm_uk.pdf.
“Trade Almanacs | Archief van Brussel.” Accessed May 13, 2025. https://archief.brussel.be/almanach/watch/AC/AC_1885%20-%2003/AC_1885_RUES%20STRATEN#page/100.