Download or read book Dress in Eighteenth-century Europe, 1715-1789 written by Aileen Ribeiro and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautiful book, Aileen Ribeiro surveys the clothing worn by the middle and upper classes throughout Europe in the eighteenth century and discusses what this meant in terms of social definition and identity. Ribeiro, one of the world's premier historians of dress, also looks at such subjects as developments in retailing and distribution, etiquette, the rise of the dress designer and couturier, the evolution of ready-made clothes, fancy dress and the masquerade.