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In recent times clothing has come to be seen as a topic worthy of
study, yet there has been little source material available. This
three-volume edition presents previously unpublished documents
which illuminate key developments and issues in clothing in
nineteenth-century England.
In recent times clothing has come to be seen as a topic worthy of
study, yet there has been little source material available. This
three-volume edition presents previously unpublished documents
which illuminate key developments and issues in clothing in
nineteenth-century England.
In recent times clothing has come to be seen as a topic worthy of
study, yet there has been little source material available. This
three-volume edition presents previously unpublished documents
which illuminate key developments and issues in clothing in
nineteenth-century England.
In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance
of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued
clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central
element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual
identities. During this period of rapid industrialisation and
urbanisation formal dress codes, corporate and institutional
uniforms, and the spread of urban fashions replaced the informal
dress of agricultural England. This laid the foundations of modern
popular dress and generated fears about the visual blurring of
social boundaries as new modes of manufacturing and retailing
expanded the wardrobes of the majority. However, a significant
impoverished minority remained outside this process. Clothed by
diminishing parish assistance, expanding paternalistic charity and
the second-hand trade, they formed a 'sartorial underclass' whose
material deprivation and visual distinction was a cause of physical
discomfort and psychological trauma.
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