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Dressing the Elite - 9781859737460
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Dressing the Elite
- ISBN
- 9781859737460
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Dressing the Elite: Clothes in Early Modern England
- Item Height
- 216 mm
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Subject
- Business
- Item Width
- 138 mm
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. Not just utilitarian, dress gives form to a society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. In Dressing the Elite, the author explores the multiple meanings that garments held in early modern England. Clothing was used to promote health and physical well-being, and to manage and structure, life transitions. It helped individuals create social identities and also to disguise them. Indeed, so culturally powerful was the manipulation of appearances that authorities sought its control. Laws regulated access to the dress styles of the elite, and through less formal strategies, techniques of disguise were kept as the perquisites of the powerful. Focusing on the elite, the author argues that clothing was not just a form of cultural expression but in turn contributed to societal formation. Clothes shaped the configurations of the body, affected spaces and interactions between people and altered the perceptions of the wearers and viewers. People put on and manipulated their garments, but in turn dress also exercised a reverse influence. Clothes made not just the man and the woman, but also the categories of gender itself. Topics covered include cross-dressing, sumptuary laws, mourning apparel and individual styles.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781859737460
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91471100
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Business
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Dressing the Elite: Clothes in Early Modern England
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
216 mm
Item Width
138 mm
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United Kingdom
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