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The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England
- Title
- The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles.
- Author
- Styles, John.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 08-420 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 432 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 08-420
- ISBN
- 9780300121193 (cl : alk. paper)
- 0300121199 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007025371
- OCLC
- 152559331
- Author
- Styles, John.
- Title
- The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 08-420