The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300121199 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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John Styles is research professor in history, University of Hertfordshire, and coeditor (with Amanda Vickery) of Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830, published by Yale University Press.
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.. 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. The material lives of ordinary English men and women were transformed in the years following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. 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
J. F. Wakefield said The Dress of the People-a magnificent study. This book is currently one of my favourite books on the history of the era, because it tackles an area that has been very neglected: the clothing of the poor, the working class and servants in the long 18th century.Jane Austen gives us some ideas of the puritanical attitude some held towards servants clothing in Mansfield Park : Mrs Norris and her sister, Mrs Price, share the opinion that servant girls ought not to show any extravagance in dress. Surviving costumes as worn by the poor etc in the long 18th century are , of course, very rare .They were worn, re worn and adapted till t. "Fashion Details" according to Free2Read. John Style's "The Dress of the People" stands out in the narrow focus of his volume: the dress of everyday people in England. With numerous photographs of art of the times, fabrics, wallpapers, furniture, and accessories, the reader can see the points he presents. He also moves among the classes, from the upper classes with their elegant frippery and penchant for marking their servants by their own livery to the tales of travelers to England. The huge pride of the English, that they wore shoes, not clogs, and deemed the Welsh as uncivilized for their bare feet, is but one of the pol. Great information Lots of detail. While it is based on English uses, there is a lot of basic information that is of use to the historian/reproducer of historical garments. Includes information like how long a shirt was expected to last, and what garments might be in a basic wardrobe, based on research of period inventories and records.
About the AuthorJohn Styles is research professor in history, University of Hertfordshire, and coeditor (with Amanda Vickery) of Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830, published by Yale University Press.