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Strasdin, Kate, author.
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Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Textile fabrics -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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The dress diary : se...
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The dress diary : secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe / Kate Strasdin.
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Strasdin, Kate, author.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Subjects
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Textile fabrics -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781639364213 (hardcover) :
1639364218 (hardcover)
Description:
303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Contents:
(from table of contents) Preface : A beautiful memory -- Family (My charming Anne : Anne Burton & Adam Sykes -- Spinning into gold : the Burtons -- A lady's laundry list : Alice Burton & Mary Fletcher -- Cobwebs of fashion : Anne Sykes & I -- The chemistry of calico : Charlotte Dugsdale Sykes) -- Abroad (The first dress I wore ... : Anne & Adam Sykes -- An American abroad : Maria Balestier -- Pirates! : Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane -- Frontier women : Miss Grant, Miss Connolly and others -- Tokens of friendship : Fanny Taylor -- Goods received : Margaret Brennand) -- Letters from home (The riot and the party : Emma Taylor -- Dancing by candlelight : the Misses Wrigley -- Wardrobe of grief : Hannah Coubrough -- A grand masquerade : Hannah Wrigley -- Missing moments : Anne & Adam Sykes) -- Return (Home comforts : Sarah Newmann -- Sisters in style : Emily & Alice Burton, Charlotte Dugdale Sykes -- Upstairs, downstairs : Margaret Charnock -- The brightest of hues : Bridget Anne Peacock -- Seaside retirement : Anne & Adam Sykes).
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Through the discovery of one Victorian woman's textile scrapbook, a fashion historian and museum curator unravels the secrets within its pages and the lives of the people within, charting, piece by piece, the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes people wear.
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Hawaii State Library
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391.00941 St
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391.00941 St
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