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Thibaudborny t1_jb54aw1 wrote

Reply to comment by The-Esquire in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

Pretty sure you could find this kind of stuff on academic journals/libraries. I would try those in your area to see if they could yield anything. If you're asking popular history (non-academic) it'll need more kabooms.

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The-Esquire t1_jb69d0l wrote

I guess. I am reading an article now that seems to confirm some of what I said:

"Unfortunately, dress history has traditionally concerned itself more with fashionable elites and the middle classes than with the working classes. Although there are some notable exceptions, this is particularly true of studies that address historical periods prior to the twentieth century"

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Thibaudborny t1_jb69q1y wrote

Those groups were the ones leaving all the written records, so yeah, not the easiest field of research regardless.

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