Undress: Informal Women's Clothing in Eighteenth-Century Britain

这项研究的中心目标是将不同的研究线索汇集在一起，以恢复裸体的整体服装类别。这将通过回答以下研究问题来实现：脱衣服在英国日常生活中的文化价值和功能是什么？脱衣是如何制作、制造和销售的？重构和具体化的方法论如何有助于服装史研究？应用和影响：本项目将对研究方法和具体学科产生重大影响。它将把裸体作为一个具有历史价值的重要领域，并将提供一个框架，通过这个框架，裸体可以用来探索身体、性别、医学、年龄、物理空间、时代、社交和道德。重建方法将对发展最佳实践作为一种历史方法作出重大贡献。这是历史上“具体化转向”（Hilary Davidson, 2019）的关键时刻，该项目将处于该领域研究的前沿。

The central aim of this research is to bring together disparate research threads in order to reinstate the holistic sartorial category of undress. This will be achieved by answering the following research questions:What was the cultural value and function of undress in daily life in Britain?How was undress constructed, manufactured, and sold?How can reconstructive and embodied methodologies contribute to dress history research?Application and impact:This project will have major methodological and subject-specific impact. It will establish undress as a 14 / 30 significant area of historical value, and will provide a framework through which undress may be used to explore the body, gender, medicine, age, physical spaces, times, sociability, and morality. The reconstructive approaches will be a major contribution to the development of best practice in making as a historical methodology. This is a vital moment for the 'embodied turn' (Hilary Davidson, 2019) in history, and this project will be at the cutting edge of research in this field.