Attempts to include peasants in the national community inspired a final technique for creating a national uniform: nationalized peasant costumes. During the nineteenth century, as the French Revolution passed into memory, patriots increasingly extended the nation down to the bottom of the social hierarchy. Romantic patriots fancied that the peasantry embodied authentic national character and tradition. They thus began investing peasant costume with national symbolism.
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Maxwell, A. (2014). Folk Costumes as National Uniforms. In Patriots Against Fashion (pp. 153–179). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137277145_9
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