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Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… this look on the cheap, however, so they became the focus of anxieties about the social order. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Keywords Consumption Dance Shoes Buckles are highly characteristic objects of the eighteenth century. Shoe buckles were widely adopted from the 1690s and 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 than …
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Touch and sociability [ Communication ]
… being touched, and once in someone’s hands there is the problem of hands being kissed or worse. These various men of fashion are one thing, but Burney ’s Diary raises wider questions about who has any claim to touch or kiss her. When she …
Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch
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The Philadelphia Dancing Assembly (1749–1849) [ Sports & Leisure ]
Assemblies | Advertisement | Dance | North America
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