"The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns.…
A question posed : entering the sartorial world -- The nature of order -- Disorder in the sartorial world -- The ordering of difference -- Fashioning difference : conclusions. "The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences i…
"The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns.…