… were interlocking circles of the observed and their observers’. 3 Bluestocking sociability eschewed formal visits and clothes (the blue stockings being considered to stand for an informal dress code), and members were involved in a ‘wide …
… to exercise and the omnipresence of sickness, their dress could be less contained. The ‘riding habit’, practical clothes for riding with jackets inspired from the shape of men’s jackets, only shorter, grew more and more popular. Women …
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