The three-piece suit and modern masculinity : England, 1550-1850
David Kuchta (Author)
In 1666 King Charles II introduced a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. This text examines the inspiration behind this royal revolution in masculine attire
History
1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations
9780520921399, 9780585466057, 9781597349543, 0520921399, 058546605X, 1597349542
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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."
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)
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