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 … of rank, wealth and refinement, which in its imitation, and as a result frequently changing and extreme styles, was met with ridicule and yet a fervent social demand. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Clothes … allow the wearer an air of refinement, or even distinguish one from the fashionable competition. However, the problem with establishing visual indicators is that they are easily emulated. In her study of women’s clothing in the eighteenth …
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