Fashioning Regulation, Regulating Fashion: The Uniforms and Dress of the British Army 1800-1815: Volume I

by Ben Townsend

This book is the first part of a two-volume investigation into the clothing orders of the British late Georgian army, combined and contrasted with an analysis of fashion in the same army - comparing the regulated dress with the 'modes of the army' as revealed by contemporary writing and illustrations.

The first quarter of the nineteenth century witnessed a refinement of fashionable masculine dress that has not since been surpassed. Military...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914059115
• ISBN13: 9781914059117
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 392 Pages