The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime (Past and Present Publications)
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The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime (Past and Present Publications)
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This book is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In it Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent on clothes and the kind of clothes they wore.
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