Fashion and fiction : dress in art and literature in Stuart England /

Ribeiro, Aileen, 1944-

Fashion and fiction : dress in art and literature in Stuart England / Aileen Ribeiro. - New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2005. - ix, 387 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Includes index. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Bibliography: p. 366-373.

Aileen Ribeiro examines Stuart England from the perspective of dress, arguing that much can be learned from artistic & literary resources on the ways that dress was perceived in this period of immense political, social & cultural change.

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Clothing and dress in art.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Arts, English--England--London--17th century.
Courts and courtiers--Clothing.--England
Clothing and dress--Social aspects--History--England--17th century.

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