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- ISBN 9781906367879
- Dimensions: 170 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2021
- Publisher: National Maritime Museum
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Dr Amy Miller is formerly Curator of Decorative Arts and Material Culture at Royal Museums Greenwich, and the author of The Globetrotter: Victorian Excursions in India, China and Japan (British Library, 2019). She also writes and lectures for a number of institutions, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, on fashion, travel and masculinity.
