Fashion and fiction : dress in art and literature in Stuart England

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Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944-

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"Focusing on the rich visual culture of the age, including portraits, engravings, fashion plates and sculpture, and on the many and varied literary sources - poetry, drama, essays, sermons - the di...

"Focusing on the rich visual culture of the age, including portraits, engravings, fashion plates and sculpture, and on the many and varied literary sources - poetry, drama, essays, sermons - the distinguished historian of dress, Aileen Ribeiro, gives an account of Stuart dress and reveals the ways in which it reflects and influences society. Supported by a wealth of images both telling and ravishing, she outlines the main narrative of clothing, as well as exploring such themes as court costumes, the masque, fanciful and 'romantic' concepts, the ways in which political and religious ideologies could be expressed in dress, and the importance of London as a fashion centre."--BOOK JACKET.

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