1st Edition
Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden Fashioning Difference
By Mikael Alm
Copyright 2021
184 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make claims and transgress formal boundaries.... Read more
1. A Question Posed: Entering the Sartorial World
2. The Nature of Order
3. Disorder in the Sartorial World
4. The Ordering of Difference
5. Fashioning Difference: Conclusions
Biography
Mikael Alm is a senior lecturer in history at Uppsala University.
