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Fashioned from Penury - Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia (Paperback)
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Fashioned from Penury - Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Australian History
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It is a common belief that Australians take little interest in
their appearance. Yet from the first white settlement, clothing was
of crucial importance to Australians. It was central to the ways
class and status were negotiated and equally significant for
marking out sexual differences. Dress was implicated in definitions
of morality, in the relationship between Europeans and Aboriginal
people, and between convict and free. This 1994 book, a history of
the cultural practices of dress rather than an account of fashion,
reveals the broader historical and cultural implications of clothes
in Australia for the first time. It shows that the colonies did not
always slavishly follow British fashion, and also looks at the
impact of the gold field experience on Australian dress, the nature
of local manufacturing and retail outlets, and the way in which
rural men and their bush dress, rather than women's dress, became
closely related to Australian identity.
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