Styles, John, The dress of the people , 2007
- Title(s):
- The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles.
- Published/Created:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.
- Physical Description:
- xi, [1], 432 p. : ill. (mostly col.) ; 26 cm.
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8083841
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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- 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
- Conclusion: Popular fashion.