David Kuchta.

David Kuchta. The Three-Piece Suit and fresh Masculinity: England, 1550-1850. (Studies forward the History of Society and Culture) Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Pres 2002 Pp x 304 $4500 ISBN 0-520-21493-5

This is often more than a study of male fashion. Rather, it is a skillfully-crafted history of ideas about voluptuousness conspicuous consumption and masculinity, and of the formation of class and sex 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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