Conspicuous constructions
The old sartorial regime, 1550-1688
"Apparel oft proclaims the man"
The crown proclaims the apparel
Court capitalism
Religious conformity to fashion
The seventeenth-century fashion crisis
"The mode is a tyrant"
"A tailor made thee"
"Popery and foppery"
The moral economy of mercantilism
The three-piece suit
Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688-1832
"the manners of a republic"
Gentlemanly capitalism
Sublime masculinity
The feminization of fashion
The making of the self-made man, 1750-1850
"Character is power"
The language of capital
"The great masculine renunciation."