Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… forces of social imitation, social emulation, class competition and emulative spending’. McKendrick refers to Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees (1723), suggesting he ‘recognized that elegant clothes could serve as an overt … ? The Maid is very often mistaken for the Mistress , and the Valet for my Lord . ‘ 6 On this topic, Batchelor quotes Mandeville that at the lower end of the social spectrum, the ‘poorest labourer’s wife […] half-starve[s] her self and her …
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