The dress of the people
Subtitle: everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England
By: John Styles.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780300121193
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- History -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Consuming the eighteenth century; title: Travellers' tales : nation and region; title: What the people wore; title: Clothing biographies; title: Keeping up appearances; title: Changing clothes; title: Fashioning time : watches; title: Fashion's favourite : cotton; title: Clothing provincial England : fabrics; title: Clothing provincial England : garments; title: Clothing the metropolis; title: The view from above; title: The view from below; title: Budgeting for clothes; title: Clothes and the lifecycle; title: Involuntary consumption : objects of charity; title: Involuntary consumption : parish paupers; title: Involuntary consumption : servants; title: Popular fashion.