| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 216 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Costume Society of America series |
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Costume Society of America series.
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| Contents |
Dressmaking as a trade for women : recovering a lost art(isanry) / Marla R. Miller -- Dressmakers in Cincinnati's golden age, 1877-1922 : an introduction -- 1. The ideology of the separate sphere -- 2. Women in the workplace -- 3. Dressmaking as a trade -- 4. Cincinnati : a historical perspective -- 5. Cincinnati's dressmakers -- 6. Ready-made garments and the rise of the department store -- The 1870s transformation of the Robe de chambre / Anne Bissonnette -- "A kind of missionary work" : the labor and legacy of Cincinnati's society women, 1877-1922 / Shirley Teresa Wajda |
| Summary |
Dressmaking, considered a natural extension of women's proper work in the home, was a common and lucrative employment for women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It afforded creative expression, prestige in the community, and even the possibility of financial independence. Yet as entrepreneurs, dressmakers faced unique business pressures, and with the advent of department stores and widespread mass production of women's clothing, most were forced out of business. Coinciding with the exhibition Cynthia Amnéus organized for the Cincinnati Art Museum, this work examines the nineteenth-century ideology of women's separate sphere, the early feminist movement, women in the workplace, and dressmakers as artisans and professionals. More than 140 stunning custom-made garments, historical photographs, and dressmakers' labels document the superb artistic and technical skill of the women who produced fashionable dress in Cincinnati from 1877 to 1922. Bracketing Amnéus's incisive study are essays by Anne Bissonnette on the eccentric tea gown, Marla Miller on the pitfalls of researching women's cultural work, and Shirley Teresa Wajda on the dressmakers' wealthy clientele. In all, A Separate Sphere offers a careful look into the lives of women struggling with ideological boundaries. Chronicling choices made by and imposed on both working-class women and their affluent counterparts, it reveals how these women managed to enhance their prescribed sphere for themselves and for the community at large |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions
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Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cincinnati -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
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DESIGN -- Fashion.
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Dressmaking
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Schneider
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Schneidern
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Mode.
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Dameskleding.
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Japonnen.
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Modeontwerpers.
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Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
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Arts & Crafts.
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Arte têxtil -- Ohio.
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Arte têxtil -- Século 19 -- Ohio.
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Arte têxtil -- Século 20 -- Ohio.
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Moda (história)
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Ohio -- Cincinnati
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cincinnati Art Museum.
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Texas Tech University.
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| LC no. |
2003004015 |
| ISBN |
1423762770 |
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9781423762775 |
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128109336X |
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9781281093363 |
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6611093362 |
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9786611093365 |
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