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Leading the Fashion: The Material Culture of London’s Beau Monde
Hannah Greig​
Description: Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
THE CHARACTERIZATION OF London’s beau monde as matchless masters of fashion is a compelling feature of eighteenth-century commentary. Whether celebrated or despised, the representation of this metropolitan set as the...
Author
Hannah Greig​
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2006 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.293-310
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00205.013
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20188
Chapter subject tags:Early modern, 1500-1800--HistoryClothing and dress--Great Britain--History--18th centuryMaterial culture--Great Britain--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryAristocracy (Social class)--Great Britain--18th centuryConsumer (Economics)--England--18th century

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Leading the Fashion: The Material Culture of London’s Beau Monde