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The culture of sewing : gender, consumption and home dressmaking / edited by Barbara Burman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dress, body, culturePublisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xvi, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1859732089
  • 9781859732083
  • 1859732038
  • 9781859732038
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 646.2
LOC classification:
  • TT504. C85 1999
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Home Dressmaking, Class and Identity -- 1. Patterns of Respectability: Publishing, Home Sewing and the Dynamics of Class and Gender 1870-1914 -- 2. Made at Home by Clever Fingers: Home Dressmaking in Edwardian England -- 3. On the Margins: Theorizing the History and Significance of Making and Designing Clothes at Home -- 4. Making Modern Woman, Stitch by Stitch: Dressmaking and Women's Magazines in Britain 1919-39 -- 5. Home Sewing: Motivational Changes in the Twentieth Century -- 6. There's No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community of the 1940s to the 1960s -- Pt. 2. Home Dressmaking and Consumption -- 7. Wearily Moving her Needle: Army Officers' Wives and Sewing in the Nineteenth-Century American West -- 8. Commodified Craft, Creative Community: Women's Vernacular Dress in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia -- 9. Creating Consumers: Gender, Class and the Family Sewing Machine -- 10. Patterns of Choice: Women's and Children's Clothing in the Wallis Archive, York Castle Museum -- 11. The Sewing Needle as Magic Wand: Selling Sewing Lessons to American Girls after the Second World War -- 12. Virtual Home Dressmaking: Dressmakers and Seamstresses in Post-War Toronto -- Pt. 3. Home Dressmaking, Dissemination and Technology -- 13. The Lady's Economical Assistant of 1808 -- 14. Dreams on Paper: A Story of the Commercial Pattern Industry -- 15. Homeworking and the Sewing Machine in the British Clothing Industry 1850-1905 -- 16. The Sewing Machine Comes Home -- 17. A Beautiful Ornament in the Parlour or Boudoir: The Domestication of the Sewing Machine -- 18. Home Economics and Home Sewing in the United States 1870-1940 -- 19. 'Your Clothes are Materials of War': The British Government Promotion of Home Sewing during the Second World War -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Home Dressmaking, Class and Identity -- 1. Patterns of Respectability: Publishing, Home Sewing and the Dynamics of Class and Gender 1870-1914 -- 2. Made at Home by Clever Fingers: Home Dressmaking in Edwardian England -- 3. On the Margins: Theorizing the History and Significance of Making and Designing Clothes at Home -- 4. Making Modern Woman, Stitch by Stitch: Dressmaking and Women's Magazines in Britain 1919-39 -- 5. Home Sewing: Motivational Changes in the Twentieth Century -- 6. There's No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community of the 1940s to the 1960s -- Pt. 2. Home Dressmaking and Consumption -- 7. Wearily Moving her Needle: Army Officers' Wives and Sewing in the Nineteenth-Century American West -- 8. Commodified Craft, Creative Community: Women's Vernacular Dress in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia -- 9. Creating Consumers: Gender, Class and the Family Sewing Machine -- 10. Patterns of Choice: Women's and Children's Clothing in the Wallis Archive, York Castle Museum -- 11. The Sewing Needle as Magic Wand: Selling Sewing Lessons to American Girls after the Second World War -- 12. Virtual Home Dressmaking: Dressmakers and Seamstresses in Post-War Toronto -- Pt. 3. Home Dressmaking, Dissemination and Technology -- 13. The Lady's Economical Assistant of 1808 -- 14. Dreams on Paper: A Story of the Commercial Pattern Industry -- 15. Homeworking and the Sewing Machine in the British Clothing Industry 1850-1905 -- 16. The Sewing Machine Comes Home -- 17. A Beautiful Ornament in the Parlour or Boudoir: The Domestication of the Sewing Machine -- 18. Home Economics and Home Sewing in the United States 1870-1940 -- 19. 'Your Clothes are Materials of War': The British Government Promotion of Home Sewing during the Second World War -- Index.

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