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Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748–1857

Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748–1857

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Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748–1857
Second revised and expanded edition

W037057 | $40.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog

Amy Miller. National Maritime Museum, London, 2021.

256 pp. Moderately illustrated (all col.) and 49 col. ref. ills. 23 x 17 cm. In English. Paperbound.

ISBN 9781906367879

Dressed to Kill provides an extensive catalog of uniforms from the collection at London’s National Maritime Museum, accompanied by a selection of patterns that examine the construction of the garments as well as personal papers, diaries, and other period artifacts. Amy Miller demonstrates the significance of male fashion and uniform in the forging of a national, hierarchical, and gendered identity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This fully updated and expanded second edition of the 2007 publication (Worldwide 71876) contains additional research that provides a greater understanding of the political and social changes that influenced not only what the Royal Navy wore, but why they wore it. Parliamentary records, newspapers, and museum archives give a greater contextualization of the relationship that naval uniform represented—the confluence of politics and economics, fashion and popular culture.

Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Great Britain -- 1600-1800 ; 1800-1900 -- Costume/Fashion -- Decorative Arts and Design --

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