This inventive and lucid book sheds new light on topics as diverse as crime, authority, and retailing in eighteenth-century Britain, and makes a major contribution to broader debates around consumerism, popular culture, and material life. The material lives of ordinary English men and women were transformed in the years following the restoration of Charles II in 1660. Tea and sugar, the fruits of British mercantile and colonial expansion, altered their diets. Pendulum clocks and Staffordshire pottery, the products of British manufacturing ingenuity, enriched their homes. But it was in their clothing that ordinary people enjoyed the greatest change in their material lives. This book retrieves the unknown story of ordinary consumers in eighteenth-century England and provides a wealth of information about what they wore.
John Styles reveals that ownership of new fabrics and new fashions was not confined to the rich but extended far down the social scale to the small farmers, day laborers, and petty tradespeople who formed a majority of the population. The author focuses on the clothes ordinary people wore, the ways they acquired them, and the meanings they attached to them, shedding new light on all types of attire and the occasions on which they were worn.

The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England

Arts & Photography

Styles, John

Graphic Design

Yale University Press

Complemented by more than one thousand full-color illustrations, a history of British design and decorative arts encompasses more than four centuries of accomplishment, from the era of Henry VII through the reign of Queen Victoria, capturing a rich variety of furniture, textiles, silver, metalwork, porcelain, painting, sculpture, prints, and drawings.

Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500-1900

Snodin, Michael

History & Criticism

Victoria & Albert Museum

Highlights include exquisitely carved and inlaid Jacobean furniture, including the famous bed of Ware; Mortlake tapestries and other luxurious textiles; and the architecture of Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren.

Design and the Decorative Arts: Tudor and Stuart Britain 1500-1714

"Georgian" has come to define a period characterized by elegance and refinement, as seen in the work of designers such as Thomas Chippendale, Robert Adam, Thomas Sheraton, and Josiah Wedgwood.

Design and the Decorative Arts: Georgian Britain 1714-1837

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's chairs, William Morris's wallpapers and carpets, and many more examples show why, during the reign of Queen Victoria, Britain was called the "workshop of the world."

Design and the Decorative Arts: Victorian Britain 1837-1901

Memoirs and Remains of Charles Buck: Containing Copious Extracts from His Diary and Interesting Letters to His Friends

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Memoirs And Remains Of Charles Buck: Containing Copious Extracts From His Diary And Interesting Letters To His Friends (1817)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kessinger Publishing

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Kessinger Pub

The Life of David Brainerd Missionary to the Indians With an Abridgement of His Hiary and Journal

History

BiblioLife

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