Hemlines and Aspirations

Western influence on Egyptian dress

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Hemlines and Aspirations

By Lucie Ryzova

In the early twentieth century, dress became a signifier of ‘modernity’ in Egypt, often vying with ‘traditional’ clothing in both urban and rural settings.

This article was first published in print in RAWI's ISSUE 11, 2021

Lucie Ryzova is associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Birmingham, UK. She specializes in the social and cultural history of modern Egypt and is the author of The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2014), as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

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