Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… one’s social circle and gain their admiration. Dress was a means of public exposure, a visual and imitable symbol of rank, wealth and refinement, which in its imitation, and as a result frequently changing and extreme styles, was met with … social demand. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Clothes Consumption Dress Fashion Rank Women Fashion, much like its influence today, played a central role in the development of Enlightenment sociability. A person’s dress was used to establish rank, cement social relationships, generate friendship and social gossip, and even indicate political allegiance. The …
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