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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Barbara Burman |
| ISBN: | 1859732038 9781859732038 1859732089 9781859732083 |
| OCLC Number: | 43321704 |
| Description: | xvi, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Patterns of respectability : publishing, home sewing and the dynamics of class and gender 1870-1914 / Chrisopher Breward -- Made at home by clever fingers : home dressmaking in Edwardian England / Barbara Burman -- On the margins : theorizing the history and significance of making and designing clothes at home / Cheryl Buckley -- Making modern woman, stitch by stitch : dressmaking and women's magazines in Britain 1919-39 / Fiona Hackney -- Home sewing : motivational changes in the twentieth century / Sherry Schofield-Tomschin -- There's no place like home : home dressmaking and creativity in the Jamaican community of the 1940s to the 1960s / Carol Tulloch -- Wearily moving her needle : army officers' wives and sewing in the nineteenth-century American West / Julie A. Campbell -- Commodified craft, creative community : women's vernacular dress in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Kathryn E. Wilson -- Creating consumers : gender, class and the family sewing machine / Nancy Page Fernandez -- Patterns of choice : women's and children's clothing in the Wallis Archive, York Castle Museum / Mary M. Brooks -- The sewing needle as magic wand : selling sewing lessons to American girls after the Second World War / Eileen Margerum -- Virtual home dressmaking : dressmakers and seamstresses in post-war Toronto / Alesandra Palmer -- The Lady's Economical Assistant of 1808 / Janet Arnold -- Dreams on paper : a story of the commercial pattern industry / Joy Spanabel Emery -- Homeworking and the sewing machine in the British clothing industry 1850-1905 / Andrew Godley -- The sewing machine comes home / Tim Putnam -- A beautiful ornament in the parlour or boudoir : the domestication of the sewing machine / Nicholas Oddy -- Home economics and home sewing in the United States 1870-1940 / Sally I. Helvenston and Margaret M. Bubolz -- "Your clothes are materials of war" : the British government promotion of home sewing during the Second World War / Helen Reynolds. |
| Series Title: | Dress, body, culture |
| Responsibility: | edited by Barbara Burman. |
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