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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]

… Résumé Luxury has always been difficult to define. The eighteenth century saw a shift from ‘old’ to ‘new’ luxury (de Vries), from aristocratic displays of wealth and power to the widespread and sociable use of commodities like … individual status, in domestic settings and in public spaces. McKendrick even claims a ‘consumer revolution’. If luxury was often coded as pernicious and immoral, some thinkers (e.g. Mandeville) provocatively praised its merits for …

Shopping [ Politics & Society ]

… 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 London … services and entertainments in its centre: e.g., taking the waters, visiting the assembly rooms, and also shopping. Luxury goods were exhibited and sold at high prices. 8   Beyond the spatial unit of the street, shopping areas began to … out, often with family members or friends, not to purchase necessities but rather to look at and acquire fashionable luxury goods and to socialize while shopping. Due to the customers' elevated social status, fashionable shopping is much …

Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… an orchestra. This created shared cultural references. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Pleasure gardens Politeness Luxury Spectacle Entertainement Masquerade Exoticism Visual culture Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of … enjoy the Georgian visual culture of surprising landscape vistas, displays of the commodities produced by the developing luxury crafts of the time, together with a culture of sociability based on mutual representation, since the visitors came … in the Rotunda which housed an orchestra. This created shared cultural references. … Pleasure gardens … Politeness … Luxury … Spectacle … Entertainement … Masquerade … Exoticism … Visual culture … Ranelagh …

Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]

… 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 … elegance involved in fashionable dress in particular, were truly symbolic of the growing culture of refined sociability, luxury and consumerism. According to Neil McKendrick, ‘Fashion was the key used by many commentators to explain the … second-hands. As new gowns replaced the old, these were handed down or sold on, meaning the markets were saturated with luxury garments and accessories, albeit at least a season behind, at almost affordable prices. 5 . See Hannah Greig, The …

Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]

… huge wave of exotic mania led to various social interactions characterised by the refinement of manners and the love of luxury. The term ‘exotic’ was associated with unfamiliar flora and fauna as well as with rare objects exhibited in places … the passion for the exotic led to various social interactions characterised by the refinement of manners and the love of luxury. The term ‘exotic’ - which must not be misunderstood with exoticism, a term coined in the nineteenth century … in particular in such a polished and commercial nation as England, the purchase of exotic items appears to be a form of luxury defined by Adam Ferguson as ‘a manner of life which we think necessary to civilization, and even to happiness. It …

Sugar [ Food & Drink ]

… Résumé In the eighteenth century, sugar, once a luxury item, became more affordable and was used as a sweetener for tea and baked goods at a time when the tea-table was … Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumer culture Tea Tea-table Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Boycott Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth century, became more affordable and more common in the eighteenth century. It was …   In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology Peter Motteux,  A Poem upon Tea  ( 1712 ).* … In the eighteenth century, sugar, once a luxury item, became more affordable and was used as a sweetener for tea and baked goods at a time when the tea-table was …