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The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles.

Styles, John. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0300121199
  • ISBN: 9780300121193
  • Physical Description: xi, 432 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-424) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Consuming the eighteenth century -- Travellers' tales : nation and region -- What the people wore -- Clothing biographies -- Keeping up appearances -- Changing clothes -- Fashioning time : watches -- Fashion's favourite? cottons -- Clothing provincial England : fabrics -- Clothing provincial England : garments -- Clothing the metropolis -- The view from above -- The view from below -- Budgeting for clothes -- Clothes and the life-cycle -- Involuntary consumption? prizes, gifts and charity -- Involuntary consumption? the parish poor -- Involuntary consumption? servants -- Popular fashion.
Subject:
Clothing and dress > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > History > 18th century.

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