1998
- Costumes in Malta
A History
of Fabric Form and Fashion
The 'Costume in Malta' publication is the accompanying literature
to the exhibition. It is a highly researched and an interesting mine of
information that encompasses the history of dress, fashion, styles and
accessories from all strata of society.
The volume takes the reader from the peasant economy of the 1400s to the
mid-20th century, and Madame Manfré, Malta's fashion couturiere,
from the splendour of Grandmaster Pinto's court to the miseries of the
Monte di Pieta. It follows the Maltese people's march through the centuries
and prods the reader to study and form opinions not easily reached before
the availability of this store of new and accumulated knowledge.
The publication is also a landmark history book of museological
interest presenting the work of 21 authors who collectively contribute
known history, new research, anecdotes and a plethora of hitherto unpublished
illustrations. It therefore serves as an essential reference book for
sociologists and anthropologists who venture to peer into the aspect of
Malta and Gozo's past.
The contributors to this publication are: Nicholas de Piro, Guze Cassar
Pullicino, Joseph C. Sammut. Thomas Freller, Carmel Cassar, Giovanni Bonello,
Raphael J. Camilleri Parlato, Vincent Zammit, Fabiana Gorassini & Sara
Iachini, Albert Ganado, Vicki Ann Cremona, Antonio Espinosa Rodriguez,
Adrian Strickland, Pat Earnshaw, Consiglia Azzopardi, Vincent Cassar,
Gerald de Trafford, Daphne Caruana Galizia & Antoine Xuereb, Wilma Friggieri.
| AUTHOR | TITLE | PAGE |
| Guze Cassar Pullicino | Notes for a History of Maltese Costume | 9 |
| Joseph C Sammut | Historical
Notes on Costume in 15th and Early 16th Century in Malta |
22 |
| Thomas Freller | Malta Africana or Malta Europea? | 40 |
| Carmel Cassar | Clothes,
Status and Class: Symbols and Reality |
50 |
| Giovanni Bonello | Law vs Fashion : The Maltese Saga | 60 |
| Nicholas de Piro | Of
Tailors, Sempstresses and Shopkeepers in 18th Century Malta |
74 |
| Raphael J Camilleri Parlato | The
Ceremonial Entry into Mdina of Grandmaster Emmanuel |
84 |
| Pinto
de Fonceca on 29th Day of October 1741 |
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| Vincent Zammit | A
Cursory Look into Cloth and Maltese Society during theTimes of the Knights |
90 |
| Fabiana
Gorassini and Sara Iachini |
Cotton and Silk in Malta | 98 |
| Albert Ganado | The
Earliest Lithographs of Maltese Costumes Produced inMalta by Pietro Paolo Caruana |
106 |
| Vicki Ann Cremona | Dress
at the Theatre from the Majesty of Pinto to theVictorian Fin de Siecle |
114 |
| Antonio Espiosa Rodriguez | The Evolution of Uniform in the Royal Navy | 126 |
| Adrian Strickland | Ties | 132 |
| Pat Earnshaw | The Revival of the Art of Lacemaking | 138 |
| Consiglia Azzopardi | Lacemaking at the Centre of Gozitan Daily Life | 144 |
| Vincent Cassar | A Firm Makes History | 148 |
| Gerald de Trafford | Cecilia - A Memoir | 150 |
| Daphne Caruana Galizia | Jewellery - Patrician Refinement, Bourgeois Glitter and | 158 |
| and Antoine Xuereb | Country Baubles | |
| Wilma Friggieri | Madame
Manfre: A dressmaking Legend of the 20th Century |
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