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… was met with ridicule and yet a fervent social demand. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Clothes Consumption Dress Fashion Rank Women Fashion, much like its influence today, played a central role in the … McKendrick refers to Bernard 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 … vol. 1 of 3 (London: Jacob Tonson, 1714), p. 45. 7 . Jessica Munns and Penny Richards (eds), ‘Introduction’ in The Clothes that Wear Us: Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture (London: Associated University …
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