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The Englishness of English Dress (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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The Englishness of English Dress (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Is there a peculiarly English 'look' and if so how does one define
it? From the 'traditional' dress of the Victorian rural working
class through to the contemporary collections of Vivienne Westwood
and a younger generation of London-based designers, notions of
Englishness, either real or imagined, have always been at play in
considerations of English fashion and clothing. This provocative
book explores how far these fraught ideals can be applied to the
dress of the past and present. English expressions of taste and
creativity have had a profound influence on style over the last
three centuries, and the pursuit and subversion of an English
'look' have shaped conceptions of fashionability from the
pastoralism of the eighteenth-century through to the eras of
Twiggy, Punk and beyond. But are these simply stereotypical
characterizations that relate to an imagined 'Englishness', or is
there some concrete basis for them? If the former, what has led to
their development? If the latter, what definitions can be employed
to unravel such complicated conceptions of national identity? What
role has social decorum played in developing an 'English' style,
and is this preoccupation with etiquette in fact unique to England
? With chapters authored by leading scholars in the fields of
costume history, social history and cultural studies, this is the
first book to examine the ways in which fashion and dress might be
considered in the context of national identities as they apply in
England. Presenting an overview of how particular designers and
consumer groups have striven to present or contest versions of
Englishness through clothing from the 18th through to the 21st
centuries, it will fascinate anyone interested in dress history,
national and ethnic identity or English cultural history.
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