The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime

by Daniel Roche

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Newly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel 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 and the kind of clothes they wore. His essential argument...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521574544

ISBN13:9780521574549

Release Date:January 1997

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:564 Pages

Weight:1.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

17th Century Arts, Music & Photography Beauty, Grooming, & Style Customs & Traditions Decorative Arts & Design Design Europe Fashion Design Fiction France

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