Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… Image ‘Wooden doss with fashionable dress and accessories’, © V&A, T.90 to V-1980, 1755-1760. Abstract The wealth and competitive elegance involved in fashionable dress in particular, were truly symbolic of the growing culture of refined sociability, luxury and consumerism. Fashion … became a form of social communication: a means by which to impress one’s social circle and gain their admiration. Dress was a means of public exposure, a visual and imitable symbol of rank, wealth and refinement, which in its …
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