East & West: textiles and fashion in early modern Europe.(CONSUMERISM AND COMPARATIVE CONTEXTS)(Essay)

From: Journal of Social History | Date: June 22, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Fashion underpinned the 4ommercial growth and cultural transformation of western society. (1) From at least the sixteenth century, fashion's demotic stimuliunleashed desires across European social ranks. Never just a folly, fashion was integral to the expression of consumer preference, the structuring of markets and the reordering of society. Its development and articulation regularized and routinized consumer expenditure, practices critical to the advance of western economies. Thus, economic and cultural realms converge. Yet there are many elements of the rise and early ...

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