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39 b/w photographs In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustrated account. Between 1550 and 1850, Kuchta says, English upper- and middle-class men understood their authority to be based in part upon the display of masculine character: how they presented themselves in public and demonstrated their masculinity helped define their political legitimacy, moral authority, and economic utility. Much has been written about the ways political culture, religion, and economic theory helped shape ideals and practices of masculinity. Kuchta allows us to see the process working in reverse, in that masculine manners and habits of consumption in a patriarchal society contributed actively to people's understanding of what held England together. Kuchta shows not only how the ideology of modern English masculinity was a self-consciously political and public creation but also how such explicitly political decisions and values became internalized, personalized, and naturalized into everyday manners and habits.
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As history records it, October 7, 1666 marks the beginning of the three-piece suit, for it was on this day, according to Samuel Pepys's Diary, that England's King Charles II declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes, which he will never alter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Glorious Revolution, Adam Smith, The British Library, Edmund Burke, Civil War, Corn Laws, John Evelyn, Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Church of England, French Revolution, Great Britain, William Cobbett, Samuel Smiles, Tudor-Stuart England, John Ogilby, Robert Greene, William Hazlitt, Bishop Berkeley, James Burgh, John Bowles, John Milton, Prince Henry, Charles Davenant, Church of Rome, David Loggan New!
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As history records it, October 7, 1666 marks the beginning of the three-piece suit, for it was on this day, according to Samuel Pepys's Diary, that England's King Charles II declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes, which he will never alter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Glorious Revolution, Adam Smith, The British Library, Edmund Burke, Civil War, Corn Laws, John Evelyn, Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Church of England, French Revolution, Great Britain, William Cobbett, Samuel Smiles, Tudor-Stuart England, John Ogilby, Robert Greene, William Hazlitt, Bishop Berkeley, James Burgh, John Bowles, John Milton, Prince Henry, Charles Davenant, Church of Rome, David Loggan New!
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- Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Burke on 5 pages
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