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Author:
Claire Tomalin
Biography Title:
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man
Page No.:
151
Researcher:
Jane Hugen-Tobler
Publisher:
Penguin Books
First Published:
n/a
Character:
Dan Petherwin
Clothing:
Waistcoat;
Colours:
Blue
Material:
n/a
Quotation:
In Hardy's 1876 novel The Hand of Ethelberta: "When Ethelberta takes her builder brothers on an educational visit to the Royal Academy, they arrive in their best clothes, 'chests covered with broad triangular areas of padded blue silk..."
Notes:
They dressed with reverence due to being seen out with their sister whom they regarded as being in a different class to them. They dressed in order to appear to come from the middle classes rather than the working classes.