Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… of refined sociability, luxury and consumerism. Fashion became a form of social communication: a means by which to impress one’s social circle and gain their admiration. Dress was a means of public exposure, a visual and imitable symbol … 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 particular their choice of dress was … prices. 5 . See Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 119. This was becoming a growing concern, and the first edition of The Ladies Library (1714), in the …
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