Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid

British dressmaking in the 18th and 19th centuries

Dr Pam Inder (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-06089-0 (ISBN)

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The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British workers. Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid focuses on the trade and the people within it, from their working conditions and earnings to their training, services and relationships with customers.

Exploring the lives of dressmakers in fact and fiction, the book looks at representations of the trade in the plays and novels of the time, while surveying the often harsh realities of the workers’ lives. From the arrival of the sewing machine to the influence of the department store, it explores the impact of mechanization, commercialization and modernity on a historical trade. Pamela Inder illuminates a new world of dressmaking enabled by goods like paper patterns and magazines, and sets out to investigate the increasing monopoly of female dressmakers in an industry once dominated by male tailors.

Drawing on a range of original and hitherto unpublished sources – including business records, diaries, letters, bills and newspaper articles – Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid reveals the untold story of the dressmaking trade. Beautifully illustrated with over 80 images, the book brings dressmakers into focus as real people, granting new insights into working class life in 18th- and 19th-century Britain.

Pam Inder is an independent scholar and was formerly Curator of Applied Arts at first Exeter and then Leicestershire Museums (specialising in dress history), after being an Assistant Curator at Birmingham City Art Gallery. She later taught at Staffordshire and De Montfort Universities.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	30.12.2019
Zusatzinfo	13 color and 75 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	708 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-06089-5 / 1350060895
ISBN-13	978-1-350-06089-0 / 9781350060890
Zustand	Neuware