Clothing in 17th-Century Provincial England

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nList of Illustrations\nAcknowledgements\nList of Abbreviations\n1 Introduction\n	Studying seventeenth-century clothing\n	Case studies\n	Seventeenth-century Sussex\n2 Literary Constructions of Clothing, the Individual and Society\n	Clothing and the social order\n	The naked Englishman\n	Men and women, youth and age\n	Understanding excessive consumption\n	The city and fashion excess\n	Clothing, the ‘golden age’ and present-day rustic contentment\n	Conclusion\n3 Clothing and Textile Production, Distribution and Acquisition\n	The supply of woollen cloth and clothing\n	Tailors\n	The supply of linen cloth and clothing\n	Shopping\n	The second-hand and ready-made clothing markets\n	Conclusion\n4 London and the Provincial Consumer\n	Seventeenth-century London\n	London’s shops\n	London and the provincial consumer\n	Shopping in person\n	Proxy shopping\n	Commissioning directly from a London tailor or mercer\n	The Jeakes and metropolitan consumption\n	Conclusion\n5 The Clothing of Provincial Gentlemen\n	The style of men’s clothes\n	The country gentleman\n	Giles Moore\n	The Roberts men and Edward May\n	Samuel Jeake\n	Richard Stapley\n	Conclusion\n6 The Clothing of Provincial Gentlewomen\n	The style of women’s clothes\n	Cosmetics and artificial enhancements\n	Women’s clothes and the law\n	The country gentlewoman\n	Judith Morley\n	Martha Mayhew\n	Elizabeth Jeake\n	Conclusion\n7 The Clothing of the Poor\n	Clothing and ‘counterfeit’ vagrants\n	The amount and variety of clothing owned by the poor\n	Clothing the parish poor\n	‘Clothes to go handsome in’: the clothing culture of the poor\n	Conclusion\nConclusion\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex