| The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime Revised Edition Contributor(s): Roche, Daniel (Author), Birrell, Jean (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0521574544 ISBN-13: 9780521574549 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $59.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: This book, the English translation of La Culture des Apparences by Daniel Roche, is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 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 on clothes and the kind of cloths they wore. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Fashion & Accessories - History | Europe - France - Social Science |
| Dewey: 391.009 |
| Series: Past and Present Publications |
| Physical Information: 1.34" H x 5.48" W x 8.48" (1.65 lbs) 564 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In it 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 on clothes and the kind of clothes they wore. |