Fashioned from Penury Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia

Name: Fashioned from Penury Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia
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ISBN: 9780521459259

ISBN-10: 0521459257

ISBN-13: 9780521459259

Edition: 1994

Authors: Margaret Maynard

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From the first white settlement clothing was of vast social significance to Australians. It was central to the ways class and status were negotiated and equally significant for marking out sexual differences. Dress was implicated in definitions of morality, in the relationship between Europeans and Aboriginal people, and between convict and free. This book reveals the broader historical and cultural implications of clothes in Australia for the first time.

Book details

List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Introduction



Penal Dress 1788-1840



Irregular patterns: government and the social order



Fraying at the edges: clothing supplies and manufacturing



A cut above: fashion, class and power



On the fringe: clothing and Aboriginal/Colonial relations



Colonial Dress



Dressing the part: urban codes - class and gender



From a different cloth: etiquette and social practice



Material needs: supply and demand



An Australian Distinctiveness



A loose fit: emigration and adaption



Alternative threads: perceptions and stereotypes



Rough and ready made: bush dress and the mythology of the 'real' Australian


Appendices


Bibliography