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Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… Image ‘Wooden doss with fashionable dress and accessories’, © 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 form of social communication: a means by which to impress one’s social circle and gain their admiration. …

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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 Correspondence Fashion Fiction Gambling Politics Suicide Georgiana Cavendish, the fifth Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), was the … Walpole’s Correspondence, ed. W.S Lewis, 48 volumes (1937-1983), vol. 32, p. 232. Cavendish became the figurehead of the fashionable world and all that she did, said and wore was widely reported and imitated. She popularized the …

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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 Celebrity Clubs Dandy Fashion Wit Until today, George Bryan ‘Beau’ Brummell (1778-1840) is credited with being the first, the ‘Ur’-dandy. … 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 …

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Saint James's [ Cities ]

… To account for its full spatial as well as social dimensions and to understand what role it played in the emergence and fashioning of London sociability, it is essential to consider St James’s as intrinsically associated with its main … Park, St James’s Square, St James’s Street and its coffeehouses and clubs. Places > Cities Mots-clés Clubs Coffeehouses Fashion Gambling Nature The political revolution that established William and Mary on the throne in 1689 had new … enclosed by Henry VIII as royal hunting ground. Following the Restoration, Charles II ‘poured large sums of money into fashioning St James’s Park as a reinstatement of natural order.’ It became one of London’s most fashionable promenades, …

Clubs | Coffeehouses | Fashion | Gambling | Nature

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Snuffbox [ Art & Luxury / Clothing & Fashion / Social interaction / Taste & Manners / Rituals & Ceremonies ]

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Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]

… eighteenth century. Eighteenth-century pockets served as containers for various portable objects that acted as props to fashionable sociability and enabled them to navigate social life. Because of their proximity to their owner, pockets were … product of female needlework, could sometimes materialise bonds between female friends and kin. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Mots-clés Dress Fashion Friendship Gaming Women When a lady was attacked in London in 1754, her pockets contained ‘among other things’: …

Dress | Fashion | Friendship | Gaming | Women

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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 Codes Fashion Health Leisure Politeness Ritual Spa The transformation of Bath in the long eighteenth century occurred against a … 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 …

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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 Fashion Gaming Manners Politeness Refinement Spa Wit Richard Nash, who was born in Swansea in 1674, has gone down in …

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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]

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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]

… reputation. Places > Sports & Leisure Places > Institutions Mots-clés Art Children Commerce Conversation Exhibitions Fashion Portrait Women Among the many artistic venues which flourished in Britain over the course of the eighteenth … half of the eighteenth century –, or during such an exhibition if one wanted to capitalise on the event – as became the fashion in London following Gainsborough’s conflict with the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’s hanging committee in 1784. … violent these dynamics were for women, particularly young ones. 12 As the desire to have one’s likeness taken by a fashionable painter vied with that to keep control over one’s image, even women of high birth ended up giving in to the …

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