Everyday dress, 1650-1900 /

A description of the everyday dress worn by the English between 1650 and 1900.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ewing, Elizabeth
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : B.T. Batsford, 1984.
Subjects:	Clothing and dress > England > History > Juvenile literature. Clothing trade > England > History. Costume > England > History. Clothing trade Clothing and dress. England. Kleidung Mode Großbritannien Kleding. Costume > Great Britain > History. Geschichte (1650-1900) Geschichte 1650-1900. English costume, 1650-1900 Juvenile works. History.

Table of Contents:

1. The early ways. Dress versus fashion ; Materials for ordinary clothes ; The role of the tailor ; Where to shop in Restoration times
2. Living in the late seventeenth century. The account book of Sarah Fell ; A traveller's view of textiles ; The importance of appearances ; A ballad view of dress
3. Moving with the times. A suit for all ; Restoration women more at ease ; Wigs for men
4. Eighteenth century variety. Boom in the wool trade ; Details in dress ; The London shops
5. The beginnings of the industrial revolution. New inventions and the cotton industry ; A dress revolution for ordinary people ; Shopping for a country parsonage ; The new simplicity ; The shawl
6. Doing the sewing. The role of women at home ; From the mantua-maker to making do ; The reaction against home sewing ; Secondhand clothing
7. Cleaning and dyeing. Washing day ; Dyeing and colour problems
8. Gradual revolution in the nineteenth century. The sewing machine ; Mass-production for men ; Slow reform for women ; Sweated labour ; The new uniformity.