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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… and power to the widespread and sociable use of commodities like porcelain and silk. Such displays of tasteful and fashionable objects enhanced individual status, in domestic settings and in public spaces. McKendrick even claims a … only for the acquisition of art but also for musing about it together. 10 This development went hand in hand with the fashion, or craze, for engravings. 11 If around 1700, only select connoisseurs like the Duke of Devonshire held … who are living above their station: ‘I found his wife and three daughters were dressed out in the most genteel and fashionable manner, and at a considerable expence [...] She was determined that none of the other shopkeepers [sic] wives …
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Public Advertiser (22 April 1763) [ Practices ]
… calculated to refresh the Stomach, raise the, Spirits, comfort the Narves and drive away the Vapours, when a Lady of Fashion has got the Hysterics from being alone, or from being fatigued by having gone to Routs, Ranelagh, or the … done. - I would have a Tax laid upon that insipid Liquor, Lemonade, which is drank at Routs and Assemblies by Perfons of Fashion, and is not at all envied them by us common Sort of People. For my part, Mr. Printer, I must confess I have an …
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