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The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the "Ancien Regime"

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The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime - Roche, Daniel, and Birrell, Jean (Translated by)
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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 is that there was a 'vestimentary revolution' in the later eighteenth ...

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The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521574549

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The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime 1994, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521411196

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