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Author Roche, Daniel.

Title The culture of clothing : dress and fashion in the ancien regime / Daniel Roche ; translated by Jean Birrell
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994

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 W'PONDS  391.00944 Roc/Coc  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 537 pages ; 22 cm
Series Past and present publications
Past and present publications.
Contents Pt. 1. Towards a History of Clothing. 1. Clothing or costume? 2. The Quicherat effect and after. 3. History, fashion and clothing systems from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries -- Pt. 2. The Economy of Wardrobes. 4. Towards an understanding of the Parisian clothing system. 5. The hierarchy of appearances in Paris from Louis XIV to Louis XVI. 6. The contents of wardrobes from the classical age to the Revolution. 7. The invention of linen. 8. The triumph of appearances: nobilities and clothes. 9. The discipline of appearances: the prestige of uniform --Pt. 3. Producing, Selling and Stealing: The Distribution of Appearances. 10. From crafts to customers: the Parisian clothing economy. 11. From crafts to customers: tailors, dressmakers, linen-drapers and fashion merchants. 12. From theft to resale: another aspect of the clothes trade. 13. Caring for clothes: from propriety to cleanliness --Pt. 4. Truth and the Mask. 14. Clothes in the novel
15. Rational and healthy clothes. 16. Fashions in reason and reasons for fashion: the birth of the fashion press in France -- Conclusion: The culture of appearances: consumption and morality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Costume -- France -- History -- 17th century.
Costume -- France -- History -- 18th century.
ISBN 052141119X
2735105679 hardback France only
Other Titles Culture des apparences. English