Author: Teresa PragaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Appearances: how to keep them up on a limited income
Author: Teresa PragaThe Westminster Review
Author: In the Days of Goldsmith
Author: Matthias McDonnell BodkinPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Literary World
Author: The Triumph of Jill
Author: Florence Ethel Mills YoungPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Lending Library
Author: State library of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid
Author: Pam InderPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350060909
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people within it, from their working conditions and earnings to their training, services and relationships with customers. Exploring the lives of dressmakers in fact and fiction, the book looks at representations of the trade in the plays and novels of the time, while surveying the often harsh realities of the workers' lives. From the arrival of the sewing machine to the influence of the department store, it explores the impact of mechanization, commercialization and modernity on a historical trade. Pamela Inder illuminates a new world of dressmaking enabled by goods like paper patterns and magazines, and sets out to investigate the increasing monopoly of female dressmakers in an industry once dominated by male tailors. Drawing on a range of original and hitherto unpublished sources – including business records, diaries, letters, bills and newspaper articles – Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid reveals the untold story of the dressmaking trade. Beautifully illustrated with over 80 images, the book brings dressmakers into focus as real people, granting new insights into working class life in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.
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Author: Robert James Lees
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