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The three-piece suit and modern masculinity [electronic resource] : England, 1550-1850 / David Kuchta.

By: Kuchta, David, 1960-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies on the history of society and culture: 47.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002Description: x, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Men's clothing -- England -- History | Masculinity -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 391/.1/0942 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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."

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-293) and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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