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The-Esquire t1_jb69d0l wrote

Reply to comment by Thibaudborny in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

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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