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Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… helps us to understand the physical aspect of social interactions. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Keywords Shoes Buckles Boots Dress Dance body The shoe is a very good example of a material object that informed the practice of sociability in … to be associated with the sins of the aristocracy, and men increasingly wore trousers or pantaloons with laced shoes or boots instead. This more military and democratic style befitted a time of war and revolution. As Hampton Weekes wrote in London in 1802, ‘Black coat, & waistcoat with Pantaloons & Hessian Boots […] is the wear of almost all the young Men here’. 3 3 . Hampton Weekes to Richard Weekes, 19 December 1802, in …

Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… of the formal ensemble that men would wear to dances: indeed, dress regulations at assembly rooms explicitly forbade boots, as they were for riding and were therefore rural outdoor wear. Many Georgian social events took place in the … with stockings-and-breeches legwear. Instead, men favoured the military fashion of pantaloons or trousers, paired with boots, or shoes tied with laces. The ostentation of buckles had little place in the more austere male fashions of the …

Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]

… Pump Room in 1707 aimed at getting rid of an aristocratic code of conduct where duelling was approved and the wearing of boots for gentlemen and of aprons for women on social occasions accepted. They replaced it with a new code of conduct …

Beau Nash [ Fashion ]

… He established a dress code previously unknown to Bath, and had a particular aversion to white aprons, swords and boots (Goldsmith 36–38; FRONTINELLA’s Invitation to the Assembly ’, 38). Through a few simple rules and his authoritative …