The three-piece suit and modern masculinity England, 1550-1850 - Kuchta, David, 1960-; ebrary, Inc. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002)
Conspicuous constructions -- The old sartorial regime, 1550-1688 -- "Apparel oft proclaims the man" -- The crown proclaims the apparel -- Court capitalism -- Religious conformity to fashion -- The seventeenth-century fashion crisis -- "The mode is a tyrant" -- "A tailor made thee" -- "Popery and foppery" -- The moral economy of mercantilism -- The three-piece suit -- Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832 -- "the manners of a republic" -- Gentlemanly capitalism -- Sublime masculinity -- The feminization of fashion -- The making of the self-made man, 1750-1850 -- "Character is power" -- The language of capital -- "The great masculine renunciation."
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-293) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Men's clothing -- England -- History; Masculinity -- History; Electronic books