TY - BOOK ID - 80817653 TI - Clothing the poor in nineteenth-century England PY - 2013 SN - 9781107325395 9781107042278 9781107645349 9781461945239 1461945232 1107325390 9781107465411 1107465419 1107042275 1107461898 113989353X 1107459737 1107645344 1107472555 1107468957 1107473543 1306072360 9781107454842 1107454840 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Clothing and dress KW - Poor KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Poverty KW - Apparel KW - Clothes KW - Clothing KW - Clothing and dress, Primitive KW - Dress KW - Dressing (Clothing) KW - Garments KW - Beauty, Personal KW - Manners and customs KW - Fashion KW - Undressing KW - History KW - Economic conditions KW - England KW - Social conditions KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Beauty and Fashion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80817653 AB - In this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities. During this period of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation formal dress codes, corporate and institutional uniforms and the spread of urban fashions replaced the informal dress of agricultural England. This laid the foundations of modern popular dress and generated fears about the visual blurring of social boundaries as new modes of manufacturing and retailing expanded the wardrobes of the majority. But a significant impoverished minority remained outside this process. Clothed by diminishing parish assistance, expanding paternalistic charity and the second-hand trade, they formed a 'sartorial underclass' whose material deprivation and visual distinction was a cause of physical discomfort and psychological trauma. ER -