Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (1723), suggesting he ‘recognized that elegant clothes could serve as an overt statement of social superiority’. 1 In February 1731 The Gentleman’s Magazine wrote, ‘By the fashion, figure, and colour … The London Tradesman (London: T. Gardner, 1747), p. 191. While it could be argued that dress created a visually legible statement of the individual and how they chose to adorn their body, in reality, judging the quality of a person’s …
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