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Dress and Morality: (Foundations of Fashion Studies)

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In 747, Saint Boniface declared that wide stripes and scarlet borders in dress were a dangerous incitement of lust and ruination of the soul. A thousand years later the Jesuit Father Bernard Vaughan, in his book The Sins of Society, claimed that immodest dress led to paganism, while the popular v-shaped necklines of fashionable tops (referred to by some doctors as 'pneumonia necklines') were denounced as immoral by religious critics, along with short skirts.

For many years dress and morality have been intertwined, while moralists throughout history have raged against fashions for being too short, too long, too tight, too loose, or too costly.

In this enlightening and entertaining book, Aileen Ribeiro looks at fashion extremes over the centuries – from codpieces to corsets – revealing how dress has functioned as a vehicle of righteousness or turpitude, and as an expression of sexuality, class or social status.

With sharp wit and lavish illustrations, Dress and Morality offers an in-depth exploration of the comical vanities and social etiquettes associated with dress in the past. This foundational fashion classic has been re-issued with a new preface, afterword and further reading list – remaining an essential and entertaining read.



Table of Contents:

Preface to the re-issue
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations with Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Body and Soul
2. Vile Bodies
3. The World, the Flesh and the Devil
4. The Ship of Fools
5. Rags of Sin, Robes of Shame and Provocations of Lust
6. The Vanity of Human Wishes
7. The Great Divide
8. Dress and Disorder
Postscript
Notes
Selection Bibliography
Index



About the Author :
Aileen Ribeiro is professor emeritus of History of Art at the University of London, UK. She is a historian of fashion and author of several books about the history of costume. Professor Ribeiro was Head of the History of Dress section at the Courtauld Institute from 1975 until 2009.

Review :
Sexual morality is the story of Dr Ribeiro's meticulously researched and racy book Aileen Ribeiro has painstakingly charted the history of dress - from the earliest times to the present day - as seen from the point of view of its moralist critics Superb


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350400559
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Foundations of Fashion Studies
  • Weight: 680 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1350400556
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 302
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 154 mm


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