Dress [ Clothing & Fashion / Taste & Manners ]
… Beau Nash (London: J. Newbery, 1762), p. 10. 4 . Jennie Batchelor, Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), p. 3. Ahead of particular social events, … bid to gain favour with Queen Anne, designed a dress covered in diamonds and gold trim, and ‘ had the most jewels of anybody there. ‘ ( Greig 120) It is clear that as the upper end of the social hierarchy clambered to distinguish itself … it could be argued that dress created a visually legible statement of the individual and how they chose to adorn their body, in reality, judging the quality of a person’s character from their dress, particularly if it was second-hand, was …
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