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The Handbook of English Costume in the Eighteenth Century traces the development of dress across a period of intense social and political change. It explores how luxury and poverty, refinement and coarseness, and license and prudery intersected as the middle class expanded and blended divergent elements into a cohesive whole. Despite the decade of war and domestic upheaval, the book shows that English fashion evolved through continuous interchange with continental styles, reflected in depictions for dolls, newspapers, and the broader public. By charting these patterns, it presents a view of the eighteenth century as a formative step toward a new social order rather than the culmination of an old regime.
First publish date: 1957
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Cunnington, C. Willett
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