Displaying 1 of 1 1989 Format: Book Author: Ewing, Elizabeth. Title: Everyday dress, 1650-1900 / Elizabeth Ewing. Publisher, Date: New York : Chelsea House Publishers, [1989], ©1984. Description: 144 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Summary: Factors apart from fashion which have influenced the dress of ordinary people for the last 2 1/2 centuries. A description of the everyday dress worn by the English between 1650 and 1900. Subjects: Clothing and dress -- England -- History -- Juvenile literature. Clothing trade -- England -- History. Costume -- England -- History. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-141) and index. Contents: 1. The early ways. Dress versus fashion ; Materials for ordinary clothes ; The role of the tailor ; Where to shop in Restoration times -- 2. Living in the late seventeenth century. The account book of Sarah Fell ; A traveller's view of textiles ; The importance of appearances ; A ballad view of dress -- 3. Moving with the times. A suit for all ; Restoration women more at ease ; Wigs for men -- 4. Eighteenth century variety. Boom in the wool trade ; Details in dress ; The London shops -- 5. The beginnings of the industrial revolution. New inventions and the cotton industry ; A dress revolution for ordinary people ; Shopping for a country parsonage ; The new simplicity ; The shawl -- 6. Doing the sewing. The role of women at home ; From the mantua-maker to making do ; The reaction against home sewing ; Secondhand clothing -- 7. Cleaning and dyeing. Washing day ; Dyeing and colour problems -- 8. Gradual revolution in the nineteenth century. The sewing machine ; Mass-production for men ; Slow reform for women ; Sweated labour ; The new uniformity. ISBN: 1555467504 9781555467500 Other Number: 21920239 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 72414 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 391.009 Ewing Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
