Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… of women’s clothing in the eighteenth century, Jennie Batchelor warns that fashion presented a threat to the social hierarchy, as ‘both a means of self-expression and a potential facilitator of false self-creation’. 4 For women in … gold trim, and ‘ had the most jewels of anybody there. ‘ ( Greig 120) It is clear that as the upper end of the social hierarchy clambered to distinguish itself from the lower, it also sparked internal competition. 9 . Amanda Foreman, …
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