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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Styles, John.     Subjects     Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Styles, John.       by title:      The dress of the peo...       by call number:      391.00942 S938d     Search the Web     Styles, John.     Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.       MARC Display

The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles. by Styles, John. Yale University Press, c2007. Call #: 391.00942 S938d Subjects Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. ISBN:  9780300121193 (cl : alk. paper) 0300121199 (cl : alk. paper) Description:  xi, 432 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Introduction: Consuming the Eighteenth Century -- Pt. I. Patterns of Clothing -- 1. Travellers' Tales: Nation and Region -- 2. What the People Wore -- 3. Clothing Biographies -- 4. Keeping up Appearances -- 5. Changing Clothes -- 6. Fashioning Time: Watches -- 7. Fashion's Favourite? Cottons -- Pt. II. Getting and Spending -- 8. Clothing Provincial England: Fabrics -- 9. Clothing Provincial England: Garments -- 10. Clothing the Metropolis -- Pt. III. Understanding Clothes -- 11. The View from Above -- 12. The View from Below -- 13. Budgeting for Clothes -- Pt. IV. People and their Clothes -- 14. Clothes and the Life-cycle -- 15. Involuntary Consumption? Prizes, Gifts and Charity -- 16. Involuntary Consumption? The Parish Poor -- 17. Involuntary Consumption? Servants -- 18. Popular Fashion -- Conclusion -- App. 1. Sources -- App. 2. Tables. Summary:  "Material things transformed the lives of ordinary English men and women between the restoration of Charles II in 1660 and the Great Reform Act of 1832. Tea and sugar, the fruits of British mercantile and colonial expansion, transformed their diets. Pendulum clocks and Staffordshire pottery, the products of British manufacturing ingenuity, enriched their homes. But it was in their clothes that ordinary people enjoyed the greatest transformation in their material lives. In calico gowns and muslin neckerchiefs, in wigs and silver-plated shoe buckles they flaunted the fruits of the nation's commercial prosperity. This book retrieves the unknown story of ordinary consumers in eighteenth-century England and what they wore."--BOOK JACKET. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Non-Circulating Reference 391.00942 S938d Non-circulating Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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