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Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

Richmond, Vivienne (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

 

A pioneering study of the importance of dress to the collective and individual identities of the nineteenth-century English poor

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Beschrijving Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

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.

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