TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burman,Barbara
TI  - The culture of sewing: gender, consumption and home dressmaking 
T2  - Dress, body, culture
SN  - 1859732089
AV  - TT504. C85 1999
U1  - 646.2 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Berg
KW  - Sewing
KW  - History
KW  - Women consumers
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Dressmaking
N1  - 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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