Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… and epitomise many features of the intervening period. They were an essential part of fashionable dress for both men and women, but their significance for eighteenth-century sociability goes deeper than this. Their decorative nature, their … friend, ‘not your buckles , but your policy , in making your heels the object of attraction rather than your head.’ 2 Women’s buckles were less visible than men’s, since they were generally smaller and could be concealed under long skirts, … meant that they were an asset to sell, which were particularly useful to groups with limited access to property, such as women and minors. After their heyday in the 1780s, the decline of buckles was remarkably rapid. ‘From the era of the …
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