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Author: Laura Sullivan
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1502604825
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the life and business of colonial dressmakers, the only business a colonial woman could purchase during that period.
Author: Amy French Merrill
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2001-12-15
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9780823961825
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Author: Christine Petersen
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Published: 2012-01-15
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 1608704173
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating book explores the life of a colonial tailor and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time.
Author: Edward Warwick
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nearly two hundred portraits and hundreds of drawings highlight a study of styles of clothing worn by men, women, and children in colonial and Revolutionary America.
Author: Kathleen A. Staples
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0313084602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study of clothing during British colonial America examines items worn by the well-to-do as well as the working poor, the enslaved, and Native Americans, reconstructing their wardrobes across social, economic, racial, and geographic boundaries. Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial America, including the social and historical background of British America, and covering men's, women's, and children's garments. The book shows how dress reflected and evolved with life in British colonial America as primitive settlements gave way to the growth of towns, cities, and manufacturing of the pre-Industrial Revolution. Readers will discover that just as in the present day, what people wore in colonial times represented an immediate, visual form of communication that often conveyed information about the real or intended social, economic, legal, ethnic, and religious status of the wearer. The authors have gleaned invaluable information from a wide breadth of primary source materials for all of the colonies: court documents and colonial legislation; diaries, personal journals, and business ledgers; wills and probate inventories; newspaper advertisements; paintings, prints, and drawings; and surviving authentic clothing worn in the colonies.
Author: Linda Baumgarten
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0300095805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Illustrated with more than 300 color photographs, including many details and back views, What Clothes Reveal treats not only elegant, high-style clothing in colonial America but also garments for everyday and work, the clothing of slaves, and maternity and nursing apparel.".
Author: Lauren Stowell
Publisher:
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1624144535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This comprehensive guide will walk you through how to make and wear your 18th century dream gown. [The authors] have endeavored to ... [bring] historically accurate dressmaking techniques into your sewing room. Learn how to make four of the most iconic 18th century silhouettes--the English Gown, Sacque Gown, Italian Gown and Round Gown--using the same hand sewing techniques done by historic dressmakers. From large hoops to full bums, wool petticoats to grand silk gowns, ruffled aprons to big feathered hats, this manual has project patterns and instructions for every level of 18th century sewing enthusiast"--Amazon.com.
Author: Peter Copeland
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1977-04-27
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kristina Harris
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-22
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0486320170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vintage guide offered turn-of-the-century seamstresses clear instructions for altering patterns and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding gowns, coats, maternity wear, children's clothing, and other apparel.
Author: Kristy Cambron
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2021-02-16
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 0785232176
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on true accounts of how Parisiennes resisted the Nazi occupation in World War II—from fashion houses to the city streets—comes a story of two courageous women who risked everything to fight an evil they could not abide. Paris, 1939. Maison Chanel has closed, thrusting haute couture dressmaker Lila de Laurent out of the world of high fashion as Nazi soldiers invade the streets and the City of Light slips into darkness. Lila’s life is now a series of rations, brutal restrictions, and carefully controlled propaganda while Paris is cut off from the rest of the world. Yet in hidden corners of the city, the faithful pledge to resist. Lila is drawn to La Resistance and is soon using her skills as a dressmaker to infiltrate the Nazi elite. She takes their measurements and designs masterpieces, all while collecting secrets in the glamorous Hotel Ritz—the heart of the Nazis’ Parisian headquarters.?But when dashing René Touliard suddenly reenters her world, Lila finds her heart tangled between determination to help save his Jewish family and to bolster the fight for liberation. Paris, 1943. Sandrine Paquet’s job is to catalog the priceless works of art bound for the Führer’s Berlin, masterpieces stolen from prominent Jewish families. But behind closed doors, she secretly forages for information from the underground resistance. Beneath her compliant facade lies a woman bent on uncovering the fate of her missing husband . . . but at what cost? As Hitler’s regime crumbles, Sandrine is drawn in deeper when she uncrates an exquisite blush Chanel gown concealing a cryptic message that may reveal the fate of a dressmaker who vanished from within the fashion elite. Told across the span of the Nazi occupation, The Paris Dressmaker highlights the brave women who used everything in their power to resist darkness and restore light to their world. Stand-alone World War II historical fiction Includes discussion questions for book clubs
