The three-piece suit and modern masculinity [electronic resource] : England, 1550-1850 / David Kuchta.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies on the history of society and culture ; 47.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.Description: x, 301 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 391/.1/0942 21
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-293) and index.
Conspicuous constructions -- The old sartorial regime, 1550-1688 -- "Apparel oft proclaims the man" -- The crown proclaims the apparel -- Court capitalism -- Religious conformity to fashion -- The seventeenth-century fashion crisis -- "The mode is a tyrant" -- "A tailor made thee" -- "Popery and foppery" -- The moral economy of mercantilism -- The three-piece suit -- Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832 -- "the manners of a republic" -- Gentlemanly capitalism -- Sublime masculinity -- The feminization of fashion -- The making of the self-made man, 1750-1850 -- "Character is power" -- The language of capital -- "The great masculine renunciation."
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.