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Gentleman's Magazine Grubstreet Journal (1731) [ Concepts ]
… wrote a treatise called, A farewel to French kicks, of which our Journalist gives his readers an abridgment. The author of it dissuades his countrymen from the use of French fashions, since we have a right, power, and genius to supply … eloquence, knowledge in medals, musick and painting, when compared with the inimitable performances of other nations The author proceeds to consider some pleas made in behalf of the French. First as to modes, that they have ever excell'd us … encouragement given to French taylors, who are priviledg'd with inscribing a new fashion’d garment to a great man, as an author does a book. Another plea is the civility of the French: To which ' tis answered, that they show it when we praise …
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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]
… the ‘king of Bath ’, a remarkable contributor to the creation of a British model of sociability. Oliver Goldsmith, the author of his first biography, published shortly after his death in 1761, draws the portrait of a riotous young man and a … swords and boots (Goldsmith 36–38; FRONTINELLA’s Invitation to the Assembly ’, 38). Through a few simple rules and his authoritative personality, he transformed Bath into a place of fashion and sociability: ‘Regularity repressed pride, and …
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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]
… , an epistolary novel that owes a debt to Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778); Burney was initially thought to have been the author. The Sylph tells of an ingénue’s entry into high society as the newly acquired bride of notorious rake, Sir …
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
… was seen as impolite and unruly. In an essay from The Universal Spectator titled ‘The Art of female conversation’, the author gently mocks the futility of female conversation and suggests considering the use of the snuffbox as a ‘polite Aid …
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… of sociability, from the prescriptions of the male doctors (Cossic, Spas , 115-139), for young sons, emancipation from authority. There, women, for a while, enjoyed more freedom than at home and could find friends or husbands: they escaped …
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