A Foot in the Past
Consumers, Producers, and Footwear in the Long Eighteenth Century
Series: Pasold Studies in Textile History; 15;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP
- Date of Publication 4 May 2006
- ISBN 9780199292257
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages338 pages
- Size 240x162x23 mm
- Weight 771 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 28 colour plates; 58 halftones; 28 figures; 24 tables 0
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Short description:
During the Enlightenment, in a society that was increasingly urbanised and mobile, footwear was an essential item of apparel. This book considers not only the practical but also the symbolic meaning of footwear in France and England during the period from the end of the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century.
MoreLong description:
A Foot in the Past analyses how footwear was consumed, retailed and produced in the eighteenth century. How many shoes were consumed? Who wore them? And what did the wearing of shoes mean in a society where part of the population walked barefoot? The book replies to such questions by showing how the increasing availability of boots, shoes and slippers in the eighteenth century was matched by profound changes in the way footwear was sold by shoe sellers and purchased
by customers. By the mid-eighteenth century large shops provided a wide array of types, sizes and shapes of footwear from high-class lustrous boots to cheap shoes with nailed soles. Shoemaking, however, remained during the eighteenth and for most of the nineteenth century one of the most
'traditional' sectors of British and continental economies. The fact that mechanization and industrialization affected boot and shoemaking only after 1850 is not exceptional. The production of most consumer goods remained dominated by small-scale urban manufacturing in which the application of machinery played little part in either increasing productivity or changing the shape and quality of products. This book argues that the social and economic practices in the consumption of footwear are
fundamental for understanding how such garments were produced and sold. Rather than embracing a vision of economic development based on mechanization and industrialization, this book investigates how social and cultural contexts for consumption shaped the way in which consumers' needs were satisfied.
These lines of enquiry are developed through a comparative analysis of British and French histories based upon primary and secondary sources and a wide-ranging survey of the literature on dress and fashion in the eighteenth century.
Volumes 1 to 13 in Pasold Studies in Textile History series may be ordered from www.maney.co.uk
This valuable book is exemplary, illuminating not just the history of shoes between producers and users but also the history of many important economic patterns from the Restoration through to the Victorian period.
Table of Contents:
Stepping In: Fashion and Footwear
Demand and Consumption
Innovation and Tradition
Shops and Shopping
Artisans and Guilds
Manufacturing and Subcontracting
Continental Competition
Towards Industrialization
Stepping Out: Conclusion
