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The Beau Monde - Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Hardcover)
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The Beau Monde - Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Hardcover)
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Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all
too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's
fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity.
But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than simply being
well dressed. Fashion denoted membership of a new type of society -
the beau monde, a world where status was no longer determined by
coronets and countryseats alone but by the more nebulous
qualification of metropolitan 'fashion'. Conspicuous consumption
and display were crucial; the right address, the right dinner
guests, the right possessions, the right jewels, the right seat at
the opera. The Beau Monde leads us on a tour of this exciting new
world, from court and parliament to London's parks, pleasure
grounds, and private homes. From brash displays of diamond
jewellery to the subtle complexities of political intrigue, we see
how membership of the new elite was won, maintained - and sometimes
lost. On the way, we meet a rich and colourful cast of characters,
from the newly ennobled peer learning the ropes and the imposter
trying to gain entry by means of clever fakery, to the exile banned
for sexual indiscretion. Above all, as the story unfolds, we learn
that being a Fashionable was about far more than simply being
'modish'. By the end of the century, it had become nothing less
than the key to power and exclusivity in a changed world.
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