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

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Amy Miller

Dressed to Kill

British Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Contemporary Fashions, 1748-1857

Amy Miller

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National Maritime Museum
28 October 2021

Fashion & textiles: design; Maritime history; Uniforms & insignia

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.

By: Amy Miller
Imprint: National Maritime Museum
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781906367879
ISBN 10: 1906367876
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 28 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.