This garment illustrates items of popular fashion, as worn by middling and labouring women.
Undoubtedly, as this notion of metropolitan gentility evolved so did other ' provincial ' notions of ' middling ' decency and respectability.
Here blasphemy becomes the development and reformation of manners which occurs at the behest of secular authorities and processes of middling sort class formation.
It was the hard-working, entrepreneurial, charitable middling townsman, and his equally diligent wife; the characters who now, quite self-consciously, occupied this typical urban middling order.
Among the middling officers, the intensity of their large inner circles was clearly lower at a median of 2.9 interactions per network member.
Even before they became middling in status there were signs of greater possibilities already manifest in these two individuals because of their social vigour.
It also contrasts strongly with the life experiences of many ' middling ' autobiographers.
We speculate that it was this consumer-conscious middling sort which promoted urban change.
