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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… 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 … was met with ridicule and yet a fervent social demand. 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 …

Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… to our understanding of sociability in the eighteenth century in several respects. Shoes were an important part of the dress ensemble for both men and women, so changing styles can highlight shifts in eighteenth-century fashions. Shoes also … 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 the … relationship with the body, and which had an important role to play in social and gender relations. Shoes are items of dress, so they have a visual importance in terms of fashion. Much historical work on shoes is from the perspective of …

Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… needlework, could sometimes materialise bonds between female friends and kin. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Keywords Dress Women mobility portable objects keepsakes Friendship When a lady was attacked in London in 1754, her pockets … History (vol. 77, n o 1, 1990), p. 200-207. Unsworth, Rebecca, ‘Hands Deep in History: Pockets in Men and Women’s Dress in Western Europe’, Costume (vol. 51, n o 2, 2017), p. 148-170. … From the mid-seventeenth century until the late … themselves, another product of female needlework, could sometimes materialise bonds between female friends and kin. … Dress … Women … mobility … portable objects … keepsakes … Friendship … Pocket …

Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]

… and the carnivalesque topsy-turvydom would have been mostly characterised by a downward movement (the higher strata dressing up as the lower strata). The divide separating the selective balls from the more democratised ones is visible in … in Castle 96), while the Gentleman’s Magazine (January, 1777) gives a brief account of a masked assembly of 'the hairdressing class', during which, we are informed, the participants were crashed by the falling floor. 2 . Henry Fielding, … Nobody, the Duke of Buccleugh, who after entertaining himself and his friends some time in that character, withdrew, new dressed himself, and appeared in a most elegant dress of a Hungarian Hussar. – The figure of Somebody, his companion, …

Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… gardens, a typical eighteenth-century locus of sociability, which offered a mixture of social classes – suitably dressed people could attend – while retaining a flattering feeling of exclusiveness. It could gather the public for … the visitors both members of the aristocracy and commoners could be found; people paying a small fee and acceptably dressed could enter, whereas other types of social occasion concerned specific social groups, for instance balls in the … gardens, a typical eighteenth-century locus of sociability, which offered a mixture of social classes – suitably dressed people could attend – while retaining a flattering feeling of exclusiveness. It could gather the public for …

Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… 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 than this. Their … The buckle therefore offered a small but conspicuous opportunity for display. The buckled shoe became central to the dress ensemble of the eighteenth century. Patrician men dressed in their uniform of jacket, waistcoat and breeches, with a stockinged leg terminating in a buckled leather shoe. …