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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Dress Fashion Sociability Society Women Rank Class Clothes Fashion, much like its influence today, played a central role in the development of Enlightenment sociability. A … McKendrick refers to Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (1723), suggesting he ‘recognized that elegant clothes could serve as an overt statement of social superiority’. 1  In February 1731 The Gentleman’s Magazine wrote, ‘By … vol. 1 of 3 (London: Jacob Tonson, 1714), p. 45. 7 . Jessica Munns and Penny Richards (eds), ‘Introduction’ in The Clothes that Wear Us: Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture (London: Associated University …

Arab discovery of European sociability [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… the extreme cleanliness. One of their best customs is that they wear a chemise, underpants and a vest underneath their clothes. A wealthy man will change his underwear several times a week. In doing so, they attempt to prevent vermin from … very poor are free from fleas or any other such creatures.ʼ (al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris , 225-226) W ith regard to the clothes worn by the French, his observer’s gaze betrays the amazement of someone who came from a traditionalist society, …

Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]

… Evening Post , they refused to consider him as their own: When he appeared in the morning in an old well-worn suit of clothes, they could not help calling him Peter Pamphlet; for the generous patron of Scotch authors, with his city wife …

Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]

… before had done. 1 . Peter Beckford, Thoughts on Hunting (London, 1782), p. 214. As with all high status hunting, fine clothes were an essential part of the experience, with the fashionable Leicestershire hunts leading the way in the …

Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]

… were interlocking circles of the observed and their observers’. 3  Bluestocking sociability eschewed formal visits and clothes (the blue stockings being considered to stand for an informal dress code), and members were involved in a ‘wide …

Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]

… to receive and communicate knowledge; to show their wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture. (Hume 107) Ur ban culture, taste, politeness, conversation, all rely on the refinement created by …