Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid

Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid

British dressmaking in the 18th and 19th centuries

Inder, Dr Pam

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

01/2022

340

Mole

Inglês

9781350242838

15 a 20 dias

472

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: The development of the dressmaking trade
1. 'About suppressing the Women Mantua-makers'
2. 'The art and mystery of mantua-making'
3. 'I bought me a gowne'
4. 'Undeviating Endeavours to Please'
5. 'At short notice ... and at most Economic charges'
6. The watershed of the 1870s
7. Winners and losers

Part Two: Dressmakers in fact and fiction
8. Dressmakers in fiction
9. Dressmakers in fact
10. Ladies and their dressmakers

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index
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