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The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in 18th-Century England, by John Styles

“There’s been an academic argument at least since EP Thompson wrote The Making of the English Working Class 45 years ago, over the degree to which the material world of labouring Englishmen and women enlarged, improved and was fashion-inspired between the end of the 17th century and the 1832 Reform Act. John Styles is a moderate in the debate, balanced between the optimists who believe that the gratification of the wants of the low-waged almost precipitated the industrial revolution and the pessimists who claim, to borrow a cracking line from Thompson, that the majority of the lowly got only “a few articles of cotton clothing … and a great many articles in the Economic History Review.” Read the review at the Guardian.

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