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Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… Image ‘Shoe buckles’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 83.1.102, late 18th century. Abstract Buckles were used to fasten shoes in the eighteenth century, as well as other articles of clothing such as breeches and hats. Because they were small, metallic and detachable, they offered … quickly went out of fashion in the 1790s, and epitomise many features of the intervening period. They were an essential part of fashionable dress for both men and women, but their significance for eighteenth-century sociability goes deeper …
Consumption | Dance | Shoes
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
Dance | Diplomacy | Entertainement | Grand Tour | Italy | Travel
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
Assemblies | Advertisement | Dance | North America
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Assembly rooms [ Sports & Leisure / Associational culture / Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Street’, York Museums Trust, YORAG: R1482, 1759. Image Thomas Rowlandson, ‘A Master of the Ceremonies Introducing a Partner’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 59.533.500, 1795. Abstract In the long eighteenth century, assembly rooms became an established institution in … growing in number over the course of the ‘century’. Assembly rooms across Great Britain became the physical and social heart of the community, places where men and women could meet to converse, dance, and attend lectures and concerts. Despite …
Assemblies | Community | Dance | Entertainement | Leisure | Music | Politeness | Women
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… men came to respect and pay due deference to conventions of physical etiquette that women sought to claim (doing so, in part, to protect their reputation and their standing in society). The evidence suggests that, while norms may have … taking it a little after the time, it would be very ill-natured to withdraw it – unless one did not like him. For my part I found something so admirably persuasive in the touch of a man I do like, even through two pairs of gloves, that I could not find it in my heart to cut short its eloquence.’ 1 Charlotte both claims a degree of female agency and acknowledges the excitement that …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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