«This book is an excellent piece of scholarship. It is thoroughly researched, nicely organized, and in line with current scholarly trends. Moreover it is highly readable. Significantly, this project represents the most in-depth look at fashion and Spanish masculinities to date."—Collin McKinney, author of Mapping the Social Body: Urbanisation, the Gaze and the Novels of GaldÓs

"The project is very well researched, and the arguments are well contextualized. Challenging conventional ways of thinking of the relation between nineteenth-century bourgeois masculinities and the consumer culture, the book is a valuable contribution to nineteenth-century Spanish literature and gender studies."—Dorota Heneghan, author of Striking Their Modern Pose: Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in GaldÓs, Pardo BazÁn, and PicÓn»