The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-century EnglandThis inventive and lucid book sheds new light on topics as diverse as crime, authority, and retailing in eighteenth-century Britain, and makes a major contribution to broader debates around consumerism, popular culture, and material life. John Styles reveals that ownership of new fabrics and new fashions was not confined to the rich but extended far down the social scale to the small farmers, day laborers, and petty tradespeople who formed a majority of the population. The author focuses on the clothes ordinary people wore, the ways they acquired them, and the meanings they attached to them, shedding new light on all types of attire and the occasions on which they were worn. |
Contents
Nation and Region | 19 |
Clothing Biographies | 57 |
Keeping up Appearances | 71 |
Copyright | |
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