Clothing the poor in nineteenth-century England / Vivienne Richmond.

"In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities. During this period of...

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Main Author: Richmond, Vivienne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University, 2013.
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505 0 |a Introduction: Identifying the poor, locating their clothes -- Setting the standard: working-class dress -- 'Frankly, a mystery': budgeting for clothes -- 'Poverty busied itself': buying clothes -- 'Woman's best weapon': needlework and home-made clothing -- 'The struggle for respectability' -- The sense of self -- 'The bowels of compassion': clothing and the poor law -- 'An urgent desire to clothe them': ladies' clothing charities -- 'We have nothing but our clothes': charity schools and servants -- 'The greatest stigma and disgrace': lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons -- Conclusion: No finery. 
520 |a "In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities. During this period of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation formal dress codes, corporate and institutional uniforms and the spread of urban fashions replaced the informal dress of agricultural England. This laid the foundations of modern popular dress and generated fears about the visual blurring of social boundaries as new modes of manufacturing and retailing expanded the wardrobes of the majority. But a significant impoverished minority remained outside this process. Clothed by diminishing parish assistance, expanding paternalistic charity and the second-hand trade, they formed a 'sartorial underclass' whose material deprivation and visual distinction was a cause of physical discomfort and psychological trauma."  |c --Provided by publisher. 
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