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The dress diary : secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Status
Rapid City Public Library - Beauty & Fashion - Adult
BEAUTY & FASHION 391.0094 STR
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BEAUTY & FASHION 391.0094 STR
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Published
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Format
Book
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
Description
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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Subjects
LC Subjects
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Diaries.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Sykes, Anne -- Diaries.
Sykes, Anne -- Travel
Textile fabrics -- History -- 19th century -- Social aspects.
Clothing and dress -- History -- 19th century -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Diaries.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Sykes, Anne -- Diaries.
Sykes, Anne -- Travel
Textile fabrics -- History -- 19th century -- Social aspects.