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020			_a9781107325395 (ebook)
020			_z9781107042278 (hardback)
020			_z9781107645349 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aGT737 _b.R54 2013
082	0	0	_a391.0094209/034 _223
100	1		_aRichmond, Vivienne, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aClothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England / _cVivienne Richmond.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (355 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aIn 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. But 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.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107042278
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107325395
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37494 _d37494