The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America / Kate Haulman.

In the see-and-be-seen port cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, fashion, a form of power and distinction, was conceptually feminized yet pursued by both men and women across class ranks. Haulman shows that elite men and women in these cities relied on fashion to present their s...

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Main Author: Haulman, Kate
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Series:Gender & American culture.
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