British quaker women’s fashionable adaptation of their plain dress, 1860–1914

Throughout the period 1860–1914, British Quaker women sought to negotiate the incorporation of fashionable attire into their wardrobes to varying degrees, after the religion’s hierarchy made prescriptive religious ‘Plain’ dress optional in 1860. After centuries of restrictive Advices, which used Scr...

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Main Author: Rumball, H. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2018
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