2017/09/01 by Eva I. Andersson · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Economic and Social Studies #Cultural History and Identity Formation #Fashion and Cultural Textiles
paper · doi:10.3366/cost.2017.0023
openalex publication_date 2017/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
This article discusses dress, and the consumption of clothing among the burghers of seventeenth-century Stockholm. Clothing was one of the most important ways in which early modern people displayed and claimed their position in society. Through fine materials and fashionable cut, wealth and status, as well as the less tangible capital of knowledge of style and trends, could be expressed in a way that was visible to all. Clothing was therefore also a way that society was made comprehensible.