Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… 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 … competition. However, the problem with establishing visual indicators is that they are easily emulated. In her study of women’s clothing in the eighteenth century, Jennie Batchelor warns that fashion presented a threat to the social hierarchy, as ‘both a means of self-expression and a potential facilitator of false self-creation’. 4 For women in particular their choice of dress was accused of being calculated, chosen to show off their best features, or …
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