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Beschreibung
Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. Not just utilitarian, dress gives form to a society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. In Dressing the Elite, the author explores the multiple meanings that garments held in early modern England.Clothing was used to promote health and physical well-being, and to manage and structure, life transitions. It helped individuals create social identities and also to disguise them. Indeed, so culturally powerful was the manipulation of appearances that authorities sought its control. Laws regulated access to the dress styles of the elite, and through less formal strategies, techniques of disguise were kept as the perquisites of the powerful.Focusing on the elite, the author argues that clothing was not just a form of cultural expression but in turn contributed to societal formation. Clothes shaped the configurations of the body, affected spaces and interactions between people and altered the perceptions of the wearers and viewers. People put on and manipulated their garments, but in turn dress also exercised a reverse influence. Clothes made not just the man and the woman, but also the categories of gender itself. Topics covered include cross-dressing, sumptuary laws, mourning apparel and individual styles.
Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. Not just utilitarian, dress gives form to a society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. In Dressing the Elite, the author explores the multiple meanings that garments held in early modern England.Clothing was used to promote health and physical well-being, and to manage and structure, life transitions. It helped individuals create social identities and also to disguise them. Indeed, so culturally powerful was the manipulation of appearances that authorities sought its control. Laws regulated access to the dress styles of the elite, and through less formal strategies, techniques of disguise were kept as the perquisites of the powerful.Focusing on the elite, the author argues that clothing was not just a form of cultural expression but in turn contributed to societal formation. Clothes shaped the configurations of the body, affected spaces and interactions between people and altered the perceptions of the wearers and viewers. People put on and manipulated their garments, but in turn dress also exercised a reverse influence. Clothes made not just the man and the woman, but also the categories of gender itself. Topics covered include cross-dressing, sumptuary laws, mourning apparel and individual styles.
Über den Autor
Susan Vincent Independent Scholar
Zusammenfassung
Also available in hardback, 9781859737460 £55.00 (November, 2003)
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction 'When I am in Good Habitt'

History and Dress

The Meaning of Clothing and the Clothing of Meaning in

Early Modern England .

Chapter 1 Fashioning Appearances

The Wardrobe - Men

The Wardrobe - Women

Reviewing the Wardrobe

Chapter 2 Addressing the Body

Outwardly for Defence - Inwardly for Cleanliness

Bodily Transitions

Clothing Grief

Chapter 3 Clothes Make the Man

His Garments Helpe Him to bee Counted Such a One

Godly Apparel

The Way of Wearing - Hat Honour

To See and be Seen

Increasing Visibility - Portraits and Livery

Punishment and Shame

A Very Good Fancy in Making Good Clothes

Chapter 4 None Shall Wear

Dress and the Law

Economic Regulation

Moral Regulation

Social Regulation

Deformity and Change - Discipline and Display

Doomed to Failure?

Chapter 5 Them and Us, He or She? .............................................. p. 200

The Rogue ............................................................ p. 202

Being and Seeming ............................................. p. 207

Actors and Courtiers ............................................ p. 213

Wo to Men ............................................................ p. 219

Cross-Dressing ...................................................... p. 228

Conclusion From Riches to Rags ....................................................... p. 250

Bibliography ............................................................................................. p. 259
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781859737514
ISBN-10: 185973751X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Vincent, Susan
Hersteller: Berg 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Susan Vincent
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2003
Gewicht: 0,3 kg
Artikel-ID: 132028139