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Margaret Anne Doody: Men in suits, 14 November 2002
The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity: England 1550-1850
by David Kuchta.
California, 299 pp., £29.95, May 2002,0 520 21493 5 Show More
by David Kuchta.
California, 299 pp., £29.95, May 2002,
“... has passed largely unregarded and unrebuked, treated instead as normal, natural and reasonable. David Kuchta’s revisionist history makes male clothing the centre of attention. Despite the dates of his study, Kuchta concentrates on the rise of Whig philosophy in England from the late 17th century onwards, and the ... ”
