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The Dress of the People : Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England by John Styles (2008, Hardcover)

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This 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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300121199
ISBN-13
9780300121193
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63875219

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dress of the People : Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Fashion & Accessories, General, Customs & Traditions
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Design, History, Social Science
Author
John Styles
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
52.1 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.7 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition
22
Lccn
2007-025371
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
391.00942/09033
Lc Classification Number
Gt736.S79 2007
Copyright Date
2007

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