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Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England

by Vivienne Richmond
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781107645349
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 360
  • Original Price: GBP 40.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Item Weight: 481 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / General

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. However, 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.

Richmond, Vivienne: - Vivienne Richmond is a Lecturer in Modern British History at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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