Clothing in 17th-Century Provincial England Tapa dura - 2019

Bloomsbury Academic. New. 2020. Hardcover. New hardback copies at a reduced price; published £85.00.; Detailed analyses of clothing culture in 17th-century provincial Sussex. A portrait of people and their clothes. Contemporary ideas about clothing, the individual and society; and the relationship between London and the provinces and the causes and consequences of conspicuous clothing consumption. Production, distribution and acquisition of clothing in Sussex; the role of London as a centre of fashionable clothing consumption and the experience of wealthier consumers in shopping there; the clothing worn by individual men, women and older children of the 'middle' and 'better' sort and the extent to which they participated in contemporary, London-driven, fashion culture. The clothing worn by the poor, including vagrants, parish paupers and the 'labouring' poor. With over 40 b/w illustrations. ; 264 pages .

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Ava Pub Sa, 2019. Hardcover. New. 264 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.