The Culture of Clothing
Roche, Daniel / Roper, Lyndal![The Culture of Clothing](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/148/1480069/CHSBZCOP031480069.jpg)
Newly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel 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 and the kind of clothes they wore. His essential ...