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Fashion and Class /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Worth, Rachel (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020.
Subjects:
Clothing and dress > Social aspects.
Fashion > Social aspects.
Social classes.
Fashion design & theory.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 What's in a name? The language of class in relation to fashion and fabrics
  • Evolution of the term 'class'
  • Working-class dress
  • Fashion and change
  • 2 The politics of fashion
  • Sumptuary legislation
  • Fashion on the eve of the Revolution
  • The impact of the French (sartorial) Revolution
  • 3 Fabric of society: technological change and fashion
  • The transformation of the cotton industry
  • Rank, manners and fashion in the English novel, 1770-1820: Fanny Burney and Jane Austen
  • 4 From north to south: class identity and dress in the English novel, 1820-60
  • Elizabeth Gaskell: dress and class conflict
  • Charles Kingsley: the rural 'problem'
  • George Eliot's 'middle England': the quest for respectability
  • Middle-class ascendancy: Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins
  • 5 Fashion, class and democratisation
  • Democratisation and the high street
  • The development of the ready-to-wear clothing industry and the wholesale bespoke trade
  • 6 Retailing revolution: Marks & Spencer and the democratisation of fashion
  • Early development of Marks & Spencer
  • Changes in the consumer market: Marks & Spencer's expansion into clothing, 1926-36
  • Technology at Marks & Spencer
  • Development of new and easy-care fabrics
  • 7 Design and class
  • Couture
  • Design on the high street
  • The cult of youth
  • Deconstruction: the challenge of Japan and Belgium
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Introduction
  • 1 What's in a name? The language of class in relation to fashion and fabrics
  • 2 The politics of fashion
  • 3 Fabric of society: technological change and fashion
  • 4 From north to south: class identity and dress in the English novel, 1820-60
  • 5 Fashion, class and democratisation
  • 6 Retailing revolution: Marks & Spencer and the democratisation of fashion
  • 7 Design and class
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index