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The three-piece suit and modern masculinity : England, 1550-1850
/ David Kuchta
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University of California Press
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2002
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1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-293) and index.
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Conspicuous constructions -- The old sartorial regime, 1550-1688 -- "Apparel oft proclaims the man" -- The crown proclaims the apparel -- Court capitalism -- Religious conformity to fashion -- The seventeenth-century fashion crisis -- "The mode is a tyrant" -- "A tailor made thee" -- "Popery and foppery" -- The moral economy of mercantilism -- The three-piece suit -- Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832 -- "the manners of a republic" -- Gentlemanly capitalism -- Sublime masculinity -- The feminization of fashion -- The making of the self-made man, 1750-1850 -- "Character is power" -- The language of capital -- "The great masculine renunciation."
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In 1666 King Charles II introduced a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. This text examines the inspiration behind this royal revolution in masculine attire.
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Print version: Kuchta, David, 1960- Three-piece suit and modern masculinity. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520214935 (DLC) 2001003099 (OCoLC)47023516
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9780520921399 (electronic bk.)
0520921399 (electronic bk.)
058546605X (electronic bk.)
9780585466057 (electronic bk.)
1597349542
9781597349543
0520214935
9780520214934
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