TY - BOOK AU - Kuchta,David ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The three-piece suit and modern masculinity: England, 1550-1850 T2 - Studies on the history of society and culture AV - GT733 .K83 2002eb U1 - 391/.1/0942 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Men's clothing KW - England KW - History KW - Masculinity KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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."; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10048947 ER -