A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment

Peter McNeil

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
01 November 2018

Fashion design & theory; History of fashion; Fashion & society

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied.

Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class as well as a more practical approach to dress.

With the rise of print culture and reading publics, fashions were more quickly disseminated and debated than ever, and the appetite for fashion periodicals went hand in hand with a preoccupation with the emerging concept of taste.

Richly illustrated with 100 images and drawing on pictorial, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment 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.

Edited by: Peter McNeil
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 169mm,
Weight: 656g
ISBN: 9780857857613
ISBN 10: 0857857614
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter McNeil is Professor of Design History at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.