Ufa ladies’ fashion (formation of provincial fashion industry in post-reform Russia)
Journal: From History and Culture of Peoples of the Middle Volga Region
Year: 2023

The process of formation of one of the branches of commercial and industrial activity – the fashion industry, which included the sale and production of goods for women in the Russian province in the 1860s–1880s – is considered. The subject of study is gender history, raising the status of a woman who becomes an independent owner or manager of a business. In the post-reform period, the rapid development of trade in women’s goods began for representatives of the "middle" and "upper" classes of Ufa