Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… © V&A, T.90 to V-1980, 1755-1760. Résumé The wealth and competitive elegance involved in fashionable dress in particular, were truly symbolic of the growing culture of refined sociability, luxury and consumerism. Fashion became a … gossip, and even indicate political allegiance. The wealth and competitive elegance involved in fashionable dress in particular, were truly symbolic of the growing culture of refined sociability, luxury and consumerism. According to Neil … hierarchy, as ‘both a means of self-expression and a potential facilitator of false self-creation’. 4 For women in particular their choice of dress was accused of being calculated, chosen to show off their best features, or simply to …
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