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Dress of the People : Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England by John Styles (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300121199
ISBN-139780300121193
eBay Product ID (ePID)63875219
Product Key Features
Book TitleDress of the People : Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicFashion & Accessories, General, Customs & Traditions
IllustratorYes
GenreDesign, Social Science, History
AuthorJohn Styles
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight52.1 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-025371
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal391.00942/09033
SynopsisThis 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. The material lives of ordinary English men and women were transformed in the years following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. Tea and sugar, the fruits of British mercantile and colonial expansion, altered their diets. Pendulum clocks and Staffordshire pottery, the products of British manufacturing ingenuity, enriched their homes. But it was in their clothing that ordinary people enjoyed the greatest change in their material lives. This book retrieves the unknown story of ordinary consumers in eighteenth-century England and provides a wealth of information about what they wore. 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.
LC Classification NumberGT736.S79 2007
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