The hidden consumer masculinities, fashion and city life 1860-1914 Christopher Breward
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TextSeries: Studies in design and material culturePublication details: Manchester Manchester University Press 1999ISBN: - 0719047986
- 0719047994
- 391 BRE
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 391 BRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000272915 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This work uncovers the consuming habits of urban men from the second half of the 19th century to the outbreak of World War I. It focuses on the fraught relationships which emerged at this time between ideal models of manly behaviour and attitudes towards the expression of sexual and class identities throught the medium of dress. The period has been identified by many historians as a crucial moment in the development of a commodity culture and its characteristics have generally been discussed in terms of a feminization of practices linked with shopping and fashionable display.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. vi)
- Acknowledgements (p. viii)
- 1 Introduction: in search of the hidden consumer (p. 1)
- 2 Unpacking the wardrobe: the grammar of male clothing (p. 24)
- 3 'Each man to his station': clothing, stereotypes and the patterns of class (p. 54)
- 4 The spectacle of the shop: provision for the male consumer (p. 100)
- 5 'In London's maze': the pleasures of fashionable consumption (p. 152)
- 6 'As I walked along the Bois de Boulogne': subversive performances (p. 189)
- 7 Manliness as masquerade: the disciplining of sartorial desire (p. 240)
- Select bibliography (p. 263)
- Index (p. 274)