Dressing the Elite

Description:

Clothing occupies a complex and important position in relation to human experience. It gives form to society's ideas about the sacred and secular, about exclusion and inclusion, about age, beauty, sexuality and status. This title explores the meanings that garments held in early modern England.

subjects: History,  Clothing and dress,  Social life and customs,  Court and courtiers,  Upper class,  Clothing,  Fashion, history,  Costume, great britain,  Costume,  Courts and courtiers,  Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

Places: England

Times: 17th century,  16th century