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1 2 Crane, Diana, 'Clothing behaviour as non-verbal resistance: Marginal women and alternative dress in the nineteenth century', in: Riello, Giorgio and Peter McNeil (eds.), "The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives", London/New York (Routledge) 2010, p