1. Mark Greif, ‘You’ll Love the Way It Makes You Feel’, London Review of Books 30, no. 20 (2008), 15, available at
www.lrb.co.uk
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2. Fernand Braudel, Civilisation and Capitalism, 15th–18th Century: The Structures of Everyday Life, trans. Siân Reynolds, Volume I (1981; reprint, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), p. 311.
3. Daniel Roche, The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Regime, trans. Jean Birrell (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 3. Roche nevertheless hesitates in a way that might point to the importance of this ‘phantom’ for historical thought: ‘it is not completely trivial, since it is a way of understanding, even regretting, the passage of time’.
4. Gilles Lipovetsky, The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy, trans. Catherine Porter (Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 3–4.
5. See, for instance, Caroline Evans, Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003);