Bikes and Bloomers : Victorian women investors and their extraordinary cycle wear / / Katrina Jungnickel |
Autore | Jungnickel Katrina |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : Goldsmiths Press, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (338 pages) |
Disciplina | 646.34 |
Soggetto topico | Women's clothing |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Part I; Introduction: Making, Wearing and Inventing Futures; Outline of the Book; 1 'One Wants Nerves of Iron': Cycling in Victorian Britain; Men, Cycling and Cycle Wear; The 'Dress Problem'; Why Study Clothing?; 2 From the Victorian Lady to the Lady Cyclist; The 'New Woman' and Changing Social Fabric; The Construction of the Lady Cyclist; The Physical Reality of Cycling in Ordinary Dress; The Social Dangers of Cycle Wear; Creating the Conditions for Invention. 3 Inventing Solutions to the 'Dress Problem'Bicycle Design Strategies; Cycle Wear Strategies; Rational Dress; Strategies of Concealment; Site-Specific Cycle Wear; Country-Specific Cycle Wear; Making (and Patenting) Your Own Cycle Wear; 4 The 1890s Patenting Boom and the Cycle Craze; Patent Reform and the Cycling Revolution; Women Inventors Fight to be Recognised; 5 Extraordinary Cycle Wear Patents; Themes in Patents; Device to Attach, Stiffen or Secure Skirt; Tailor Skirt to Fit Bike; Built-In Bifurcation; Bloomers, Breeches and Knickerbockers; Convertible Cycle Wear. Researching, Making and Wearing Convertible Cycle WearPart II; 6 Patent No. 17,145: Alice Bygrave and Her 'Bygrave Convertible Skirt'; The Inventor and Her Life; Commercialisation and Distribution; Interviewing the 'Bygrave Convertible Skirt'; 7 Patent No. 6794: Julia Gill and Her Convertible Cycling Semi- Skirt; The Inventor and Her Life; Ideas and Experimentation; New Cycle Wear Retail Experiences; Interviewing Julia's Convertible Cycling Semi-Skirt; 8 Patent No. 8766: Frances Henrietta Müller and Her Three-Piece Convertible Cycling Suit; The Inventor and Her Life. The Gender Politics of PocketsInterviewing Henrietta's Three-Piece Convertible Cycling Suit; 9 Patent No. 13,832: Mary and Sarah Pease and Their Convertible Cycling Skirt/ Cape; The Inventors and Their Lives; Tactics for Site-Specific Concealment; Visual Culture of Women's Cycling; Interviewing the Pease Sisters' Convertible Skirt./ Cape; 10 Patent No. 9605: Mary Ward and Her Convertible 'Hyde Park Safety Skirt'; The Inventor and Her Life; Promenading in the Parks; Interviewing Mary's Convertible 'Hyde Park Safety Skirt'; Part III. Conclusion: The Politics of Patenting (or How to Change the World One Garment at a Time)British Cycle Wear Patents 1890-1900; Notes; Bibliography; Figures; Index. |
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Jungnickel Katrina
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Consuming mass fashion in 1930s England : design, manufacture and retailing for young working-class women / / Cheryl Roberts |
Autore | Roberts Cheryl |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
Disciplina | 002 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body |
Soggetto topico | Women's clothing |
ISBN |
9783030946135
9783030946128 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Premise -- Time Frame -- Definition of Terms -- 1930s Working Class and Locale -- Young, Modern, Working-Class Women in the 1930s -- The Definition of Working-Class Dress -- Affordability -- Ready-Made, Ready-to-Wear and Lightweight Clothing -- The Framework and Structure of This Book -- The Fusing of Business Archives and Object-Based Research: A Developing Approach to Fashion and Dress Histories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2 Agents of Change -- Social Place -- Locality and Locale -- Shared Community Values and Indicators of Class -- Poverty -- Class and Poverty -- Employment as an Indicator of Class -- Employment Possibilities -- Wage Contribution -- Social Communities of Work -- Leisure -- Defining Agents of Change -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 What Is Fashion? -- Communicating Fashion -- Fashion and Individuality -- Individuality and Community Identity -- Peer Group, Social Pressure and Individual Dressing: Fashion in the Eye of the Beholder -- Dress as a Social Indicator and Social Uniform -- Conformity -- Taste -- Issues of Mass Fashion: Innovators or Emulators? -- Material Agency -- Fashion or Style? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4 Progressive Production Practices: Developments in Design, Print, Colour Forecasting and Fabric -- Designing Fashionable Lightweight Ready-Made Dresses -- Fabric Designs and Textile Prints -- Floral Frocks, Designers and Frivolity -- Colour Forecasting -- Colour in the Wardrobe of a Young Working-Class Woman -- Rayon: The Fabric Revolution and British Suppliers -- Artificial Fibres: The Importance of Quality and the Sensory -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5 New Developments and Technological Change: The Business of Mass Manufacturing Fashion -- London as a Centre for Mass Fashion -- Fashion Fluctuations.
Mass Manufacture or Technological Determinism: Creators of Consumption -- Technological Determinism: Vertical Integration Versus Vertical Disintegration -- Small Factory Production -- Jewish Workshops and Factories -- Workforce and Gender Change -- The Small Factory and the Shift to Dressmaking -- Methods of Production: "Making Through" and Sectionality -- Technological Driven Change? -- Wholesale Methods: The Manufacturing Middleman -- The Specialist Wholesaler, the Fashion Copy House Designers and Levels of Wholesale -- The Trading System for the Manufacturing Wholesaler of Ready-Made Lightweight Day Dresses and Their Eventual Decline -- The New Providers of Mass Manufactured Lightweight Day Dresses -- Multiple Trading: In House Manufacture vs. Direct from Manufacturer -- C& -- A. The Self-Sufficient Womenswear Provider -- C& -- A: Factory Revolutionaries-Advancement in the Mass Manufacture of Lightweight Day Dresses -- C& -- A's "Style Monotony", Consumer Demand and Manufacturing Turnover -- Marks and Spencer and the Direct from Manufacturer Approach -- The Role of Design and Technology Within Marks and Spencer's Business Practice -- N. Corah and Sons the Manufacturer: Marks and Spencer the Customer -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6 Localities of Fashion Modernity in the 1930s: Practices of Retailing Behind the High Street -- Unsettling Times -- Consuming Fashion -- Money Lenders, Doorstep Credit, Second-Hand Dealers, Seconds Traders and Street Markets -- Tallyman, Money Lenders and Doorstep Credit -- Second-Hand Traders, Wardrobe Dealers and Hawkers-the "Curb-Side Couturiers" -- "Material Literacies" -- Jumble Sales, Sale of Jumble -- Seconds Traders of Excess and Faulty Mass Manufactured Garments: Z. Myers & -- Sons and Mr Meyer Gold -- Street Markets: Shopping for Young Working-Class Women -- Touts, Schleppers and Guinea Gowns. The Downfall of Berwick Street -- Cross Class Communication and Social Commentary -- Mail Order: Acquisition of Goods and Retailing Methods -- Mail Order and the Young Working-Class Woman -- Pricing Structure and Marketing: Littlewoods Rayon Day Dresses -- Littlewoods Marketing Method for One Rayon Day Dress -- Competition Between Mail Order and the High Street -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 7 Localities of Fashion Modernity in the 1930s: Practices of Retailing on the High Street -- Multiple and Chain Shops -- C& -- A Modes and the British High Street: Affordable Fashion for All? -- Missed Opportunities -- Marks and Spencer: Value and Quality -- Retailing Fashion, Value and Quality -- Marketing Methods of Lightweight Day Dresses -- Department Stores: The Working-Class Female Consumer and Class Fragmentation -- Low-End Madam Shops: The Hodson Shop, Ready-Made Clothing Wholesalers and the Customer. -- Ready-Made or Home Dressmaking? The Style Oxymoron -- Home Dressmaking Lightweight Day Dresses as a Tool for Modern Self-Presentation -- The Cost of Home Dressmaking and Its Decline -- Home Dressmaking Assumptions and Fashionability -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8 Findings and Conclusion -- Dispelling the Tropes -- Future Possibilities? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910619283203321 |
Roberts Cheryl
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022] | ||
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Glamorous by George : the key to creating movie-star style / / George Kotsiopoulos ; editor Rebecca Kaplan ; designer Evan Gaffney |
Autore | Kotsiopoulos George |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Abrams Image, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (175 p.) |
Disciplina | 646.34 |
Soggetto topico |
Women's clothing
Fashion Beauty, Personal Motion picture actors and actresses - Clothing Fashion in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61312-552-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460826003321 |
Kotsiopoulos George
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Glamorous by George : the key to creating movie-star style / / George Kotsiopoulos ; editor Rebecca Kaplan ; designer Evan Gaffney |
Autore | Kotsiopoulos George |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Abrams Image, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (175 p.) |
Disciplina | 646.34 |
Soggetto topico |
Women's clothing
Fashion Beauty, Personal Motion picture actors and actresses - Clothing Fashion in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-61312-552-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dressing like a movie star on an extra's budget -- Cheap is not a bad word -- Era-sistible wardrobe -- Era-sistible beauty -- Entertain like a movie star -- Life's little luxuries : where to save and where to splurge -- Be sweet or stay home. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797946103321 |
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New York, New York : , : Abrams Image, , 2014 | ||
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Glamorous by George : the key to creating movie-star style / / George Kotsiopoulos ; editor Rebecca Kaplan ; designer Evan Gaffney |
Autore | Kotsiopoulos George |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Abrams Image, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (175 p.) |
Disciplina | 646.34 |
Soggetto topico |
Women's clothing
Fashion Beauty, Personal Motion picture actors and actresses - Clothing Fashion in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-61312-552-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Dressing like a movie star on an extra's budget -- Cheap is not a bad word -- Era-sistible wardrobe -- Era-sistible beauty -- Entertain like a movie star -- Life's little luxuries : where to save and where to splurge -- Be sweet or stay home. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822044303321 |
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New York, New York : , : Abrams Image, , 2014 | ||
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The hundred dresses : the most iconic styles of our time / / Erin McKean ; illustrated by Donna Mehalko |
Autore | McKean Erin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York State : , : Bloomsbury, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 391.4/72 |
Soggetto topico |
Women's clothing
Fashion design Dresses |
ISBN | 1-60819-979-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- One Hundred Dresses -- Acknowledgments -- One Hundred Books about Dresses. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910163921203321 |
McKean Erin
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New York, New York State : , : Bloomsbury, , [2013] | ||
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Language of Jewellery : Dress-accessories and Negotiations of Identity in Scandinavia, c. AD 400-650/70 / / Ingunn Marit Røstad |
Autore | Røstad Ingunn Marit |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oslo : , : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing), , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (394 pages) |
Disciplina | 646.3 |
Soggetto topico |
Dress accessories
Women's clothing |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Language of Jewellery |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910493730603321 |
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Oslo : , : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing), , 2021 | ||
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Language of Jewellery : Dress-accessories and Negotiations of Identity in Scandinavia, c. AD 400-650/70 / / Ingunn Marit Røstad |
Autore | Røstad Ingunn Marit |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oslo : , : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing), , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (394 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, plans |
Disciplina | 306.09 |
Collana | Norske Oldfunn |
Soggetto topico |
Dress accessories
Women's clothing |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Language of Jewellery |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910734345003321 |
Røstad Ingunn Marit
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Oslo : , : Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing), , 2021 | ||
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Roman Women's Dress : literary sources, terminology, and historical development / / Jan Radicke |
Autore | Radicke Jan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 755 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 646.34 |
Soggetto topico | Women's clothing |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910645948603321 |
Radicke Jan
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Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2022 | ||
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Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y., : Women's Wear Daily |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 746.9/2/05 |
Soggetto topico |
Clothing trade - United States
Fashion Women's clothing Women's clothing industry Clothing trade |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996336118003316 |
New York, N.Y., : Women's Wear Daily | ||
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