A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Vivienne Richmond is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Introduction: identifying the poor, locating their clothes 1. Setting the standard: working-class dress 2. 'Frankly a mystery': budgeting for clothes 3. 'Poverty busied itself': buying clothes 4. 'Woman's best weapon': needlework and home-made clothing 5. 'The struggle for respectability' 6. The sense of self 7. 'The bowels of compassion': clothing and the Poor Law 8. 'An urgent desire to clothe them': ladies' clothing charities 9. 'We have nothing but our clothes': charity schools and servants 10. 'The greatest stigma and disgrace': lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons Conclusion: no finery Bibliography.
Introduction: identifying the poor, locating their clothes 1. Setting the standard: working-class dress 2. 'Frankly a mystery': budgeting for clothes 3. 'Poverty busied itself': buying clothes 4. 'Woman's best weapon': needlework and home-made clothing 5. 'The struggle for respectability' 6. The sense of self 7. 'The bowels of compassion': clothing and the Poor Law 8. 'An urgent desire to clothe them': ladies' clothing charities 9. 'We have nothing but our clothes': charity schools and servants 10. 'The greatest stigma and disgrace': lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons Conclusion: no finery Bibliography.
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