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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance (Paperback)
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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance (Paperback)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market,
the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use
of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In
response to a thirst for the new, fashion’s pace of change
accelerated, the production of garments provided employment for an
increasingly significant proportion of the working population, and
entrepreneurial artisans began to transform even the most
functional garments into fashionable ones. Anxieties concerning
vanity and the power of clothing to mask identities heightened
fears of fashion’s corrupting influence, and heralded the great
age of sumptuary legislation intended to police status and gender
through dress. Drawing on sources from surviving garments to
artworks to moralising pamphlets, this richly illustrated volume
presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body,
belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and
literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural
significance of dress and fashion in the period.
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