Custom or consumption? Plebeian fashion in eighteenth-century england

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 103-115

  Styles, John ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230508279     Document Type: Chapter

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