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The culture of clothing : dress and fashion in the ancien regime

Title: The culture of clothing : dress and fashion in the ancien regime / Daniel Roche ; translated by Jean Birrell.
Author: Roche, Daniel
Publication: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Series Statement

Past and present publications

Uniform Title

Alternative Title

Culture des apparences.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Pt. 1. Towards a History of Clothing. 1. Clothing or costume? 2. The Quicherat effect and after. 3. History, fashion and clothing systems from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries -- Pt. 2. The Economy of Wardrobes. 4. Towards an understanding of the Parisian clothing system. 5. The hierarchy of appearances in Paris from Louis XIV to Louis XVI. 6. The contents of wardrobes from the classical age to the Revolution. 7. The invention of linen. 8. The triumph of appearances: nobilities and clothes. 9. The discipline of appearances: the prestige of uniform -- Pt. 3. Producing, Selling and Stealing: The Distribution of Appearances. 10. From crafts to customers: the Parisian clothing economy. 11. From crafts to customers: tailors, dressmakers, linen-drapers and fashion merchants. 12. From theft to resale: another aspect of the clothes trade. 13. Caring for clothes: from propriety to cleanliness -- Pt. 4. Truth and the Mask. 14. Clothes in the novel. 15. Rational and healthy clothes.
16. Fashions in reason and reasons for fashion: the birth of the fashion press in France -- Conclusion: The culture of appearances: consumption and morality.

ISBN

052141119X

LCCN

93029656

OCLC

ocm28632365

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries