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“pam inder”

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  • Dresses and Dressmaking

    From the Late Georgians to the Edwardians

    by Pam Inder ...
    Examining how dress evolved over the long nineteenth century, between the French Revolution and the First World War, Pam Inder explores the history behind how women’s clothing was manufactured and worn. Focusing on specific examples and particular details such as the fabric, cut, trimming and stitching, Dresses and Dressmakingshows how techniques and styles in women’s clothing developed. Including ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Rag Trade

    The People Who Made Our Clothes

    by Pam Inder ...
    This book is about people who worked in the rag trade in the nineteenth century – dressmakers and milliners, tailors, two shoemakers, a framework knitter, a family of corset manufacturers and a lace maker. It deals with the trades and their products, but also with the day-to-day lives of the protagonists, both at work and at home. Working people have always made up the majority of the population ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods

    The British millinery trade from the 17th to the 19th centuries

    by Dr Pam Inder ...
    Tracing its development from a trade devoted to selling small needlework articles, ribbons and trimmings to one chiefly concerned with making and selling hats and bonnets, Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods is an examination of the millinery trade from the early 17th century to the Victorian period.The term 'milliner' derives from milan-er – seller of goods from Milan. Milliners sold 'small wares' – ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen

    British Seamstresses from the 17th to the 19th centuries

    by Dr Pam Inder ...
    Shirts, Shifts and Sheets of Fine Linen explores how the jobs of the 'seamstress' evolved in scope, and status, between 1600-1900.In the 17th and early 18th centuries, seamstressing was a trade for women who worked in linen and cotton, making men's shirts, women's chemises, underwear and baby linen; some of these seamstresses were consummate craftswomen, able to sew with stitches almost invisible ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid

    British dressmaking in the 18th and 19th centuries

    by Dr Pam Inder ...
    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 ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Jane Austen at Home

    A Biography

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