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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: Consuming the eighteenth century; value: Travellers' tales : nation and region; value: What the people wore; value: Clothing biographies; value: Keeping up appearances; value: Changing clothes; value: Fashioning time : watches; value: Fashion's favourite : cotton; value: Clothing provincial England : fabrics; value: Clothing provincial England : garments; value: Clothing the metropolis; value: The view from above; value: The view from below; value: Budgeting for clothes; value: Clothes and the lifecycle; value: Involuntary consumption : objects of charity; value: Involuntary consumption : parish paupers; value: Involuntary consumption : servants; value: Popular fashion.