The culture of sewing : gender, consumption and home dressmaking /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
1999.
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| Series: | Dress, body, culture.
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Table of 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.