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Styles, John.
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Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Styles, John.
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles.
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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.
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