The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England, 1550-1850.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

David Kuchta. The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England, 1550-1850. (Studies on the History of Society and Culture.) Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. 2002. Pp. x, 304. $45.00. ISBN 0-520-21493-5.

This is much more than a study of male fashion. Rather, it is a skillfully-crafted history of ideas about luxury, conspicuous consumption and masculinity, and of the formation of class and gender identities in England from the mid-Tudor period to the Victorian era. Well-researched and theoretically informed (without being too heavy-handedly so), this ...

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