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The dress diary : secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe / Kate Strasdin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strasdin, Kate, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Clothing and dress.
- Clothing and dress--History--19th century--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Textile fabrics--History--19th century--Social aspects.
- Textile fabrics.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Sykes, Anne--Diaries.
- Sykes, Anne.
- Sykes, Anne--Travel.
- Genre:
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Pegasus books cloth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preface: A beautiful memory
- Family
- Abroad
- Letters from home
- Return.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781639364213
- 1639364218
- OCLC:
- 1347430510
- Publisher Number:
- 99994074640
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