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Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]
… Hall observed that the company on a field day ‘go out with as much ceremony as to court, their hair always being dressed’. 2 And the post-hunt socialising was no less glamorous: the start of the Quorn’s hunting season, for example, … County of Leicester, 4 vols. (London, 1795-1815, iii), p. 101n. For most of the eighteenth century there was no formal dress code, beyond the need to be seen in fine attire, but in the final decades of the century, foxhunters switched to … gentleman would scarcely be found within their midst. Packs were not socially integrative affairs – subscriptions, dress codes, and the custom of accepting new members only by invitation all helped to ensure that every foxhunting man …
Animals | Elite | Hunting | Sports | Women
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Phaeton [ Transport ]
… maintain a bevy of carriages and horses was costlier than the carriages themselves. Truly only comparable to homes and dress, carriages were a unique and overt display of elite status – but a pleasure carriage set those of highest rank and … from Kensington to St. James’s Palace. 7 By the eighteenth century, London’s beau monde paraded along this lit track dressed in their best clothes, riding in their ornate carriages, and meeting one another out in their carriages and … Onslow is depicted in a coachman’s coat reflects elite men’s rejection, in the later eighteenth century, of magnificent dress for plainer, simpler clothes. 8 Onslow, lacking the full equipage of coachmen and grooms, blurs the distinction …
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