Dress and morality

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Dress and morality

Aileen Ribeiro

B.T. Batsford, 1986

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Bibliography: p. 186

Includes index

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Description

Charting the history of dress from early times to the present day, this text examines the perspective of moralist critics against the various fashions which have emerged. Ribeiro's other titles include "The Visual History of Costume", co-written with Valerie Cumming.

Table of Contents

  • Body and soul
  • vile bodies
  • the world, the flesh and the devil
  • the ship of fools
  • rags of sin, robes of shame and provocations of lust
  • the vanity of human wishes
  • the great divide
  • dress and disorder.

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