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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… and free trade. Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Art Commodities Community Consumption Furniture Luxury Porcelain Shopping Tea-table Women The rise of consumer goods and consumerism made luxury a much-debated topic throughout the … (Hume 107) Ur ban culture, taste, politeness , conversation , all rely on the refinement created by luxury. Thus, shopping for luxury goods such as silk and porcelain, the display of glassware at home, or the use of an equipage would … of a highly successful set of images. Among the public spaces where the new commodity items were staged were shops and shopping streets, theatres, pleasure gardens, all of them spaces where people often went in groups. For example, joint …
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Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century (1812) [ People ]
… an evening, the meeting-place of a select party of men of superior abilities, for the purpose of conversation..." … Shopping … Literature … Text taken from John Nichols, Samuel Bentley and Son Nichols. Literary Anecdotes of the …
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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
… , Journal of Design History (vol. 21, n° 3, 2008), p. 205-221. Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997). Midgley, Clare, Feminism … , Journal of Design History (vol. 21, n° 3, 2008), p. 205-221. Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth, Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997). Midgley, Clare, Feminism …
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
Collecting | Consumption | Emotions | Fashion | Friendship | Luxury | North America | Snuff
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Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… Wright's Circulating Library, Bodleian Library, Douce Portfolio 139 (808). Permission of the Bodleian Library. Image "Shopping at the Temple of the Muses" by Rudolph Ackermann (1809). Abstract London Bookshops are no longer seen …
Books | Commerce | Reading
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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… played a distinctive role in supporting women’s mobility and participation to such fashionable, sociable activities as shopping, visiting, going to assemblies or the theatre. By carrying snuffboxes , scent bottles and portable writing sets, …
Dress | Fashion | Friendship | Gaming | Women
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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
Codes | Fashion | Health | Leisure | Politeness | Ritual | Spa
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Spas [ Health ]
… Chairs’ facilitated access to the walks for people with disabilities. The famous ‘pantiles’, Tunbridge Wells’ early shopping alley paved in 1700, blended in early consumer culture with the social ritual of the promenade. Longer walks in …
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
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Saint James's [ Cities ]
… and a sword cutler (Chancellor 51). At the South end of St James’s Street, Pall Mall was also one of the first important shopping streets of the area, with a profusion of new luxury shops. St James’s Street was crowded with the carriages of …
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