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

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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

9780300121193 (cl : alk. paper)

0300121199 (cl : alk. paper)

xi, 432 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.

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.

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