Gifts and Gift-giving [ Politics & Society / Furniture & Interior decoration / Social interaction ]
… The Foundling Hospital (1739) even encouraged further gifts through its art gallery and concerts, both of which drew on fashionable sociability. 4 . Paul Slack, From Reformation to Improvement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 14 … such as Thomas Clarkson, who in turn gave them to the others, until ‘the taste for wearing them became general; and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honourable office of promoting the …
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