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Dressing the Elite

Susan Vincent

2003320 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · ENGISBN 9781845208615
  • 2003No further detail recordedISBN 9781847889003
  • 2004Berg Publishers · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9781859737460
  • 2003Berg Publishers · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9781859737514

Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. It gives form to society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. This title explores the meanings that garments held in early modern England.

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