xiv, 290 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

The history of retailing and consumption

History of retailing and consumption.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-286) and index.

Introduction / Catherine Richardson. Fabrics of nation. The cultural significance of costume books in sixteenth century Europe / Ulrike Ilg -- A question of nation : foreign cloth on the English subject / Roze Hentschell -- Tomb effigies and archaic dress in sixteenth century Ireland / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett -- The formation of Russian women's costume at the time before the reforms of Peter the Great / Oksana Sekatcheva. Marking distinctions. Clothing courtesans : fabrics, signals, and experiences / Tessa Storey -- Clothing the naked in late medieval East Kent / Sheila Sweetinburgh -- Dress, nudity and Calvinist culture in sixteenth century France -- Graeme Murdock -- Social fabric in Thynne's debate between pride and lowliness / Claire Bartram. Material movements. Clothing distributions and social relations c. 1350-1500 / Joanna Crawford -- Fashion, finance, foreign politics and the wardrobe of Henry VIII / Maria Hayward -- Reworked material : discourses of clothing culture in early sixteenth century Greenwich / Elisabeth Salter. Discourse, body, gender. 'This one poore blacke gowne lined with white' : the clothing of the sixteenth century English book / Helen smith -- 'Havying nothing upon hym saving onely his sherte' : event, narrative and material culture in early modern England / Catherine Richardson -- Rips and slits : the torn garment and the medieval self / Andrea Denny-Brown -- Speaking to reveal : the body and acts of 'exposure' in early modern popular discourse / Elizabeth Hallam.

Clothing and dress -- Europe -- History.

Clothing and dress -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.

Clothing and dress -- History -- 17th century.

Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Europe.

Richardson, Catherine.

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