The Dress Diary : : Secrets From a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe
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Preface: A beautiful memory -- Family -- Abroad -- Letters from home -- Return.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Year Published: 2023
Description: 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781639364213
1639364218
SUBJECTS
Sykes, Anne -- Diaries.
Sykes, Anne -- Travel
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- 19th century -- Great Britain.
Textile fabrics -- Social aspects. -- 19th century
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Diaries.