The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

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Index Italicized page numbers indicate illustrations. Adams, Abigail, 187–88, 211–12 Adams, John, 157, 161, 165–66, 211–12, 214, 261 (n. 18) Adams, Nabby, 211–12 Adams, Samuel, 1–2, 162, 175, 178 Addison, Joseph, 49–51, 239 (n. 5) African Americans, 4, 17, 25, 54, 219, 225. See also Enslaved men; Enslaved women; Self-emancipated slaves Alexander, Mary (née Mary Spratt), 11, 12, 13, 19–20, 33, 39–43, 45, 238 (n. 90) American Revolutionary War, 5, 153–80. See also Colonial resistance; Culture wars/ political loyalty; Political transformation post–American Revolution; Sacrifice ethic Amusements/theater, 51, 126, 128, 145, 156, 166, 183, 209–10, 263 (n. 44) Anne (queen), 17, 38, 52, 56 Antifashion for men, 225 Anti-luxury discourse, 82–83, 84, 93–94, 110–12, 249 (n. 51). See also Imported fabrics versus domestic cloth production Arenas/settings for display, 14, 34–35, 46; balls/assemblies as, 38, 170, 172, 174, 178–79, 264 (n. 63), 265 (n. 86); churches as, 14–16, 51, 166, 192, 223; country houses and, 104–5; individual expressions of fashion and, 14–17 Balloon petticoats, 189–91, 190 Balls/assemblies, 38–39, 170, 172, 174, 178–79, 264 (n. 63), 265 (n. 86) Beekman, James, 42, 43–44, 45, 68, 238 (n. 89) Bickerstaff, Isaac (pseud. for Richard Steele), 53, 54–56, 60 Binary gender system (dichotomous model), 50, 51, 239 (n. 7) Blackburn, Joseph, 96, 97, 99, 99–100 Body/body politic, 1–2, 5; adornment of, 60; antifashion for men and, 225; corsets and, 217, 219, 225; Democratic Republicanism and, 222–23; enslavement metaphor and, 219, 224; Federalism and, 220–23; feminization of fashion and, 219–20, 223–24; France/French and, 223; Grecian gowns paradox and, 217, 219, 224–25; imported fabrics versus domestic cloth production and, 221–23; independency of dress and, 223–24; masculine sensibility versus consumer society and, 225; mind/body dualism and, 219; nationhood and, 223–24; racialized, 219, 225; republicanism/fashion intersection and, 217, 220, 221–22, 224–25, 271 (n. 12); “review” of bodies of women and, 53–54; social power of women and, 217, 220–25, 271 (n. 12); symbolic significance of fashion and, 217, 219, 223; women and, 18, 51, 53–54, 89, 150 Boston, 3–4 Boycotts, 126, 127–28, 130, 151, 254 (n. 5), 256 (n. 34) Boylston, Nicholas, 102 Boylston, Rebecca, 102, 103 Bradford, Thomas, 64, 67, 76, 104 Britain/British, 3, 5; calico fashion and, 32–34; colonial connections with, 34–36, 38–41, 42, 74, 161–62, 261 (n. 18); con- 276 Index sumer society and, 1; court culture and, 75, 104, 106, 142, 188; crisis of colonial resistance and, 5, 7, 8, 82; economic stimulus of fashion and, 3; English Civil War of 1640s, 58; French and Indian War, 104, 243 (n. 66); French/Parisian fashion and, 36, 38, 42, 237 (n. 68); hairstyles and, 157, 191; Marriage Act of 1753, 85–86, 246 (n. 8); mercantilist system and, 35, 236 (n. 65); Meschianza and, 170, 172, 173, 174, 264 (n. 63); military styles for British army/redcoats and, 154, 169, 170; plainness/sacrifice as fashionable for women and, 124–25; prostitution and, 148; Queen Anne’s War, 17, 38, 56; Revenue Act, 105–7, 116, 128; robe à la anglaise and, 36; Stamp Act, 106–12, 115–16, 118–22, 126–27; Sugar Act, 105, 110, 116, 120; Townshend Acts, 118, 120–23, 128, 130, 150–51 British army/redcoats, 154, 169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 264 (n. 63). See also Britain/ British Cadwalader, Anne, 131, 132 Cadwalader, Elizabeth Lloyd, 128, 130–31, 132, 139–40, 156 Cadwalader, John, 128, 130–31, 132, 162 Callender, Hannah, 83–91, 116, 147, 246 (nn. 6–7), 248 (n. 34) Caroline (queen), 35–36, 39–40, 42 Carson, Cary, 233 (n. 9) Charleston, 3, 4 Chastellux, Marquis de, 175–76, 177, 178 Chesterfield, Earl of, 167–68, 210, 243 (n. 63), 262 (n. 38), 270 (n. 74) Churches, and fashion displays, 14–16, 51, 166, 192, 223 Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (Richardson), 88, 129, 246 (n. 7) Cloth. See Fabric Cockades, 9, 155, 221, 223, 272 (n. 19) Colonial elites, 4–5; balls/assemblies and, 38; counteridentification and, 20–21, 234 (n. 24); men’s pursuit of fashion and, 67; personal identity of women and, 96, 100; personal identity through country styles and, 104–5; portraiture/art and, 100. See also Country fashion for...