Conversation piece:

McNeil, P

Conversation piece:

McNeil, P

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Publisher:: Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, London/Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: British Art Studies: Luxury & Crisis - Redefining the British Decorative Arts, 2020, 1, (16)
Issue Date:: 2020-06-30

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dc.contributor.author	McNeil, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2151-4196
dc.date.accessioned	2020-10-06T20:38:18Z
dc.date.available	2020-10-06T20:38:18Z
dc.date.issued	2020-06-30
dc.identifier.citation	British Art Studies: Luxury & Crisis - Redefining the British Decorative Arts, 2020, 1, (16)
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/143116
dc.description.abstract	'Powder and Paris: Travel, hair and crisis in mid-eighteenth century England'. No overseas travel, no luxury goods purchased abroad in glamorous stores, constrained sociability and an enforced return to the domestic and familial. Such has been our time in Australia during COVID-19, where a ban on all overseas travel remains enforced, and seated restaurants, cafés, and most stores were shuttered for nearly three months. Hairdressers were closed for the first month and then limited to 30 minute sessions, prompting a right-wing TV commentator to successfully lobby the Federal government that it was impossible to maintain one’s hair within such strictures. As international borders and local businesses slowly reopen, can we compare our predicament with an earlier 18th century episode, when travel was impossible due to warfare, yet young men strained to experience foreign life, tastes and fashions?
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, London/Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
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'Powder and Paris: Travel, hair and crisis in mid-eighteenth century England'. No overseas travel, no luxury goods purchased abroad in glamorous stores, constrained sociability and an enforced return to the domestic and familial. Such has been our time in Australia during COVID-19, where a ban on all overseas travel remains enforced, and seated restaurants, cafés, and most stores were shuttered for nearly three months. Hairdressers were closed for the first month and then limited to 30 minute sessions, prompting a right-wing TV commentator to successfully lobby the Federal government that it was impossible to maintain one’s hair within such strictures. As international borders and local businesses slowly reopen, can we compare our predicament with an earlier 18th century episode, when travel was impossible due to warfare, yet young men strained to experience foreign life, tastes and fashions?

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