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work_f7xlfjykwbhffhkjjfa2a57hya	Jackie Reid-Walsh	'Do you understand muslins, Sir?': the Circulation of Ball Dresses in Evelina and Northanger Abbey	2000	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4069	289	68	"'Do you understand muslins, Sir?': the Circulation of Ball Dresses in Evelina and Northanger Abbey" "'Do you understand muslins, Sir?': the Circulation of Ball Dresses in Evelina and Northanger I focus on the circulation of women's fashion with special reference to ball dresses of the 1770s and 1800s, employing the term 'circulation' in a double sense. ball dresses as 'circulating objects' and 'interpreted objects' (Corrigon 1500-1914 (1996), Jane Ashelford, a dress historian for the British National Trust, describes how, during the Eighteenth Century, shopping in the mid-Eighteenth Century required between 20 and 22 yards of material, making the price of a silk gown between £10 to £70. notes, regarding shopping for clothes, with a dress income of 20 pounds Evelina's period, women of higher and lower ranks are similarly criticized for dressing alike but the social order is disturbed in a different Since women of different ranks may wear silk dresses, high-heeled 	./cache/work_f7xlfjykwbhffhkjjfa2a57hya.pdf	./txt/work_f7xlfjykwbhffhkjjfa2a57hya.txt