The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America

Contents

contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction That Strange, Ridic’lous Vice 1 One The Many Faces of Fashion in the Early Eighteenth Century 11 Two Fops and Coquettes Gender, Sexuality, and Status 47 Three Country Modes Cultural Politics and Political Resistance 81 Four New Duties and Old Desires on the Eve of Revolution 117 Five A Contest of Modes in Revolutionary Philadelphia 153 Six Fashion and Nation 181 Epilogue Political Habits and Citizenship’s Corset The 1790s and Beyond 217 Notes 227 Index 275 ...