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Margaret Anne Doody: Men in suits, 14 November 2002
The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England 1550-1850
by David Kuchta.
California, 299 pp., £29.95, May 2002,0 520 21493 5 Show More
by David Kuchta.
California, 299 pp., £29.95, May 2002,
“... could be purchased more and more readily by more and more persons possessing money rather than class, the nobility could not uphold their image. Ceremonial and hierarchical display of gold brocade and velvet came to be seen as meretricious: the clothing of upstarts. ‘Luxury’ has always been a hot political issue; for Kuchta, the language of clothes is ... ”