Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Clothes Consumption Dress Fashion Rank Women Fashion, much like its influence today, played a central role in the development of Enlightenment sociability. A person’s dress was used to … form a judgment of the sentiments and qualities of the mind’. 2 Likewise, for Oliver Goldsmith, ‘dress has a mechanical influence upon the mind, and we naturally are awed into respect and esteem at the elegance of those, whom even our reason … of new and exciting fashions accompanying the century’s commercial and economic growth, those in positions of influence (and with the wealth to experiment with different styles) had to make each dress more elaborate than the last, …
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