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“jade halbert”

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  • Everyday Fashion

    Interpreting British Clothing Since 1600

    Edited by Bethan Bide, Jade Halbert, Liz Tregenza ...
    Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and the luxurious, Everyday Fashion makes the case that your grandmother's wardrobe is an archive as interesting and important as any museum store. From the moment we wake and get dressed in the morning until we get undressed again in the evening, fashion is a central medium through which ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Disseminating Dress

    Britain's Fashion Networks, 1600–1970

    Edited by Serena Dyer, Jade Halbert, Sophie Littlewood ...
    Fashion travels. Every new shape of sleeve, each novel method of cutting and any innovation in fabric has spread through complex networks of makers, retailers and consumers. Disseminating Dress represents the first historical study of how these networks of fashion communication functioned and evolved in an increasingly global material world. Focussing on Britain – separated from mainland Europe, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Keeping Up Appearances

    Fashion and Class Between the Wars

    by Catherine Horwood ...
    The British have always been concerned about accent, appearance and class, but at no time during the twentieth century was ' keeping up appearances' more important than during the 1920s and 1930s. From the impecunious youth anxious to create a favourable impression at the local tennis club dance to female office workers advised by the Daily Mail that women in business kept 'their position partly, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

    by Matthew Kelly ...
    A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable womenIn Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activists have campaigned tirelessly for the right to roam through the countryside and the vital ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • England: A Class of Its Own

    An Outsider's View

    by Professor Detlev Piltz ...
    A wry, affectionate and amusing take on English class and customs from an outsider's perspective.For years German lawyer and author Detlev Piltz has been observing England, its life, customs and above all its classes. He argues that whenever an English person meets another, they will immediately try and place the individual they are talking to in a class by their speech, deportment, clothing, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Understanding Fashion History

    by Valerie Cumming ...
    The generous reception given to Understanding Fashion History when it was first published in 2004 recognised it as a timely reappraisal of the role of fashion and its place in society. The book introduces the reader to the ways fashionable dress has been defined and studied since the late 17th century, considering the theories that surround the subject, the assembling and use of collections of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Bikes and Bloomers

    Victorian Women Inventors and their Extraordinary Cycle Wear

    by Kat Jungnickel ...
    An illustrated history of the evolution of British women's cycle wear.The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of women's liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public lives—cycle wear. This illustrated account of women's cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Back to the Shops

    The High Street in History and the Future

    by Rachel Bowlby ...
    What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see. Back to the Shops offers a set of short and surprising chapters, each one a window into a different shop type or mode of selling. Old shopping streets are ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Material Lives

    Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

    by Serena Dyer ...
    Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's making has traditionally been seen as decorative, trivial and superficial. Yet their material archives, forged through fabric samples, watercolours, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Street Food

    Hawkers and the History of London

    by Charlie Taverner ...
    This is the story of the women, men, boys, and girls who hawked oysters, cherries, cabbages, and pies on London's streets, feeding the capital throughout its transformation from medieval city to global metropolis. Street Food reconstructs the working lives of these poor traders, following them from the back alleys and cramped rooms they called home, to the taverns, bridges, and corners where they ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Designing Modern Britain

    by Cheryl Buckley ...
    From the iconic Routemaster bus to the Dyson vacuum cleaner, the graphics of Penguin bookcovers or Vivienne Westwood garments, Britain has been at the forefront of design practice. In this informative and broad-ranging book Cheryl Buckley examines the culture as well as the products of design in Britain. In doing so, she explores questions of national identity, regional variations and notions of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Art Needlwork

    its socio-economic and cultural aspects

    by Linda Cluckie ...
    Aiming to make a contribution to our understanding of the embroidery business, this book shows the dynamics shaping development and the role of women employed in the industry. In particular the economic significance of the embroidery business to female employment in the 19th century will be revealed, as it has been hidden from view, mainly due to employing outworkers, a hidden workforce. Though a ... Read more

    $10.13 USD