Beschreibung:
Culture of Respect. Clothes and their Colours in Laichingen from 1750 to 1820. This is contribution to the investigation of the specific cultural and social dynamics of local society in South-West Germany at the end of the Ancien Régime. At the same time it is an excercise in historical micro-analysis. Clothes and their colours (and here especially the colour blue) are investigated in the socially and symbolically distinguishing roles and functions they had in society of standing and estate, a society, in which esteem by others and appearance were of the utmost importance.