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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [ Aristocracy / Fashion ]

… novel The Sylph explores the relationship between high society, sociability and suicide. People > Aristocracy People > Fashion Mots-clés Burney Duchess Devonshire Epistolary Evelina Fashion Fashionability Gambling Suicide Sylph Georgiana Cavendish, the fifth Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), was the eldest …

Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… 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 form of social communication: a means by which to impress one’s social circle and gain their admiration. … frequently changing and extreme styles, was met with ridicule and yet a fervent social demand. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Dress Fashion Sociability Society Women Rank Class Clothes Fashion, much …

Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]

… and interacted in modes that were the result of the paradoxical cohabitation of pleasure and pain, of illness and fashion. In Bath, sociability aimed at healing the citizen’s body together with the body politic.   Places > Cities Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Civitas Codes Fashion Healing Health Invalid leisure Politeness ritual Spa The transformation of Bath in the long eighteenth century … development and evolution from a centre of cure, whose waters had attracted invalids back in Roman times, to a centre of fashion were truly remarkable. A place of unruly, licentious behaviour in the seventeenth century, it became a centre of …

Beau Brummell (George Bryan) [ Fashion ]

… figure, later writers such as Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly and Charles Baudelaire turned him into a mythical icon. People > Fashion Mots-clés Recency Dandy Fashion Clubs performance Until today, George Bryan ‘Beau’ Brummell (1778-1840) is credited with being the first, the … his epigrammatic and often insolent sayings. He enjoyed immense power for over twenty years, from the time he joined the fashionable Tenth Regiment in 1794 up to his final departure from England in 1816. Like the fop, the buck, and the …

Beau Nash [ Fashion ]

… by his contemporaries, played a decisive part in the transformation of Bath, Britain’s ancient watering-place, into a fashionable resort. The inventor of a new type of spa sociability, he contributed to the emergence of a British model of … a refined and polite nation. This entry attempts to assess his action without downplaying his moral ambiguity. People > Fashion Mots-clés Bath Fashion Gaming Social codes Manners Master of Ceremonies Politeness Refinement Spa Wit Richard Nash, who was born in …

Shopping [ Politics & Society ]

… acquisition of necessities and was frequently practiced as a leisure activity. Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Fashion Luxury City Bath London Shopping Street Growing Towns and Shopping Streets Sociable shopping developed because in … necessities. It is obvious that pre-1700 shopping must have been conducive to sociable exchange, too. 6   Yet the new fashionable urban shopping differs from earlier purchasing activities. It was often undertaken by women of the middle and … virtual space of a 'social sphere' situated between the Habermasian public sphere and the private sphere. 7   This new fashionable shopping had its routines, which were tied to the spaces where it occurred. In Chester, a North-Western …