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The process of acquiring the garment - either the multiple visits to the dressmakers premises, or the convention that dressmakers visited the customer in their own home - was highly ritualised and constructed in a deliberate manner around ideas of leisure, femininity, domesticity and statements of conspicuous politeness, which further reinforced the cultural significance of the garment. Even in much more secular societies, such as those of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe, leisure was highly ritualised. |
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