Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748 - 1857

by Amy Miller

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Coinciding with the "Sailor Chic" exhibition at the National Maritime Museum (NMM), this book explores naval identity, contemporary fashion, and masculinity in three essays and features newly commissioned art that fully illustrates the NMM's uniform collection. Personal papers, diaries, fiction and other period artifacts combine with the images to demonstrate the significance of male fashion and uniform in forging a national, hierarchical, gendered identity in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • ISBN10 0948065745
  • ISBN13 9780948065743
  • Publish Date 15 June 2007
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 April 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint National Maritime Museum
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Language English