Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 174-183

by Timothy Campbell and Timothy P. Campbell

Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812248325
• ISBN13: 9780812248326
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"