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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Strasdin, Kate, author.     Subjects     Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Textile fabrics -- History -- 19th century.     Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Strasdin, Kate, author.       by title:      The dress diary [lar...         MARC Display

The dress diary [large type] : secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe / Kate Strasdin. by Strasdin, Kate, author. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023. Subjects Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.   Textile fabrics -- History -- 19th century.   Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. ISBN:  9781638089186 (large print ; hardcover) : 1638089183 (large print ; hardcover) : Description:  399 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm Edition:  Center Point Large Print edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments -- some her own, others donated by family and friends -- she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs. Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of Kate Strasdin, a fashion historian and museum curator. Using her expertise, Strasdin spent the next six years unravelling the secrets contained within the album's pages, and the lives of the people within. Her findings are remarkable. Piece by piece, she charts Anne's journey from the mills of Lancashire to the port of Singapore before tracing her return to England in later years. Fragments of cloth become windows into Victorian life: pirates in Borneo, the complicated etiquette of mourning, poisonous dyes, the British Empire in full swing, rioting over working conditions and the terrible human cost of Britain's cotton industry. This is life writing that celebrates ordinary people: not the grandees of traditional written histories, but the hidden figures, the participants in everyday life. Through the evidence of waistcoats, ball gowns, and mourning outfits, Strasdin lays bare the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes we choose to wear."-- Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hanapepe Public Library Large Type LT 391.00941 St Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult New Books LT 391.00941 St Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Large Type LT 391.00941 St Checked out 06/19/2024 Add Copy to MyList Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT 391.00941 ST Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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