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Author Styles, John.

Title The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
©2007
©2007

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Description xi, 432 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: Consuming the eighteenth century -- Travellers' tales : nation and region -- What the people wore -- Clothing biographies -- Keeping up appearances -- Changing clothes -- Fashioning time : watches -- Fashion's favourite : cotton -- Clothing provincial England : fabrics -- Clothing provincial England : garments -- Clothing the metropolis -- The view from above -- The view from below -- Budgeting for clothes -- Clothes and the lifecycle -- Involuntary consumption : objects of charity -- Involuntary consumption : parish paupers -- Involuntary consumption : servants -- Popular fashion
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Clothing and dress -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043323
Great Britain -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056946 -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006124
Great Britain -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056946 -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006124
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056951
LC no. 2007025371
ISBN 9780300121193 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Other Titles Everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England