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Dressed to Kill: British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748-1857

by Amy Miller

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Naval uniform as fashion, politics, and identity

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Naval uniform as fashion, politics, and identity

Amy Miller traces British naval uniform from 1748 to 1857 as more than a matter of dress, examining its place in the social and economic changes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book connects clothing to ideas of masculinity, national identity, and hierarchy, drawing on parliamentary records, newspapers, and museum archives. Alongside this historical analysis, the second edition includes a catalogue of uniforms from the National Maritime Museum and patterns that show how garments were constructed. The combination gives the subject both a broad cultural context and a material focus.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of British naval dress and the Royal Navy.
  • Those exploring the links between fashion, masculinity, and national identity.
  • Readers looking for archival context and visual material on historic garment construction.

Themes

British naval uniform, 1748–1857Fashion and masculinityNational and hierarchical identityPolitics, economics, and popular cultureGarment construction and museum collections

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Book overview

Dressed to Kill is a unique and detailed analysis of naval uniform and its historical, social and economic contexts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This fully updated and expanded second edition examines the significance of male fashion and uniform in the forging of a national, hierarchical and gendered identity. By drawing upon extensive archival research, Amy Miller provides a greater explanation of the political and social changes that impacted not only what the Royal Navy wore, but why. Parliamentary records, newspapers and museum archives give a greater contextualisation of the relationship that naval uniform represented - that of a confluence of politics and economics, fashion and popular culture. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this second edition of Dressed to Kill includes an extensive catalogue of uniforms from the rich collection of the National Maritime Museum and a selection of patterns that examine the construction of the garments.
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