Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity England, 1550-1850

Name: Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity England, 1550-1850
Price: 72.52 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780520214934

ISBN-10: 0520214935

ISBN-13: 9780520214934

Edition: 2002

Authors: David Kuchta

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $77.24

Marketplace

3 new & used from $72.52

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustrated account. Between 1550 and 1850, Kuchta says, English upper- and middle-class men understood their authority to be based in part upon the display of masculine character: how they presented themselves in public and demonstrated their masculinity helped define their political legitimacy, moral authority, and economic utility. Much has been written about the ways political culture, religion, and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/21/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 313
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



Conspicuous Constructions



The Old Sartorial Regime, 1550-1688



The Seventeenth-Century Fashion Crisis



The Three-Piece Suit



Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832



The Making of the Self-Made Man, 1750-1850



Inconspicuous Consumption


Notes


Bibliography