Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… upon the mind, and we naturally are awed into respect and esteem at the elegance of those, whom even our reason would teach us to contemn’. 3 Dress not only offered a visual symbol of rank and wealth, but could also emanate taste, allow … criminal records of the eighteenth century reveal a large number of cases in which employers accuse their servants of stealing their clothing’ (p. 32). See J. C. Flugel, The Psychology of Clothes (London: Hogarth Press, 1930), p. 117–119, …
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