Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… of class and gender evolved, especially when the spread of luxurious items had reached the lower middle class. A letter to the editor in the Gentleman’s Magazine (1773) describes an invitation to a grocer’s house and a visit to a … [sic] wives and daughters should excel her’ and ‘to that purpose had consulted a great milliner at Westminster’. 12 The letter-writer finds the women so full of ‘pride and vanity’, so keen on spending lavishly, that he quits his original …
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