Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… fashion in the 1790s, and epitomise many features of the intervening period. They were an essential part of fashionable dress for both men and women, but their significance for eighteenth-century sociability goes deeper than this. Their … The buckle therefore offered a small but conspicuous opportunity for display. The buckled shoe became central to the dress ensemble of the eighteenth century. Patrician men dressed in their uniform of jacket, waistcoat and breeches, with … clothing – but the visual effect was worth the risk. 7 . Alicia Kerfoot, ‘Declining Buckles and Movable Shoes in Frances Burney’s Cecilia’, The Burney Journal (11, 2011), p. 55-79. More sombrely, buckles were also part of the culture of …
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