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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Introduction
Chapter 1: Fashion Timeline, 1800–1950
Women’s Styles
Men’s Dress
Children’s Clothes
Chapter 2: Following Fashion
Metropolitan Novelties
Regional Variations
Technological Advances
Presenting an Image
The Generation Gap
Fashion and Popular Culture
Chapter 3: Work Wear: Town and Country
Rural Styles
Factory Dress
Business Modes
Chapter 4: Work Wear: Occupational Uniforms
Standardised Dress
Domestic Servants
Behind the Counter
Chapter 5: Dressing up, Dressing down
‘Sunday best’
At Home
Holiday Clothes
Chapter 6: Sports Wear
Horse-Riding
Tennis
Cycling
Motoring
Golf
Walking and Rambling
Chapter 7: Special Occasions
Bridalwear
Mourning Attire
Evening Dress
Chapter 8: Making and Buying
Learning to Sew
Home Work
Paper Patterns and Sewing Machines
Make-do and Mend
Hand-Knitting
Sourcing Fabrics and Clothes
Chapter 9: Caring for Clothes
Preserving Fine Apparel
The Household Laundry
Starching, Drying and Ironing
Storing Clothes
Chapter 10: Clothing Industry Work
Regional Manufactures
Dressmakers and Seamstresses
Washerwomen and Laundry Workers
Chapter 11: Fashion Heirlooms
Costume Keepsakes
Jewelled Treasures
Painted and Printed Records
Bibliography
Plate section
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