This book, the English translation of La Culture des Apparences by Daniel Roche, is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent on clothes and the kind of cloths they wore.
This book, the English translation of La Culture des Apparences by Daniel Roche, is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent on clothes and the kind of cloths they wore.
List of plates List of tables Part I. 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 Part II. 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 Part III. 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 Part IV. 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 Index.
List of plates List of tables Part I. 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 Part II. 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 Part III. 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 Part IV. 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 Index.
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