Fashioning the Bourgeoisie:
A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
Philippe Perrot
Translated by Richard Bienvenu

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Introduction	3
I	Toward a History of Appearances	6
II	Clothing's Old and New Regimes	15
III	The Vestimentary Landscape of the Nineteenth Century	26
IV	Traditional Trades and the Rise of Ready-Made Clothing	36
V	The Department Store and the Spread of Bourgeois Clothing	58
VI	New Pretensions, New Distinctions	80
VII	The Imperatives of Propriety	87
VIII	Deviations from the Norm	124
IX	Invisible Clothing	143
X	The Circulation of Fashions	167
	Conclusion	189
	Notes	193
	Bibliography	253
	Index	267

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