This lecture addresses the complex ties between texts and textiles within the fashion culture of
eighteenth-century Britain.
Chloe Wigston Smith examines garments and accessories that incorporated paper into their construction and textile designs that were inspired by literature.
She investigates why some eighteenth-century authors resisted the correspondence between texts and textiles by criticizing contemporary fashion culture.
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