ABSTRACT

In recent times clothing has come to be seen as a topic worthy of study, yet there has been little source material available. This three-volume edition presents previously unpublished documents which illuminate key developments and issues in clothing in nineteenth-century England.

chapter

Introduction

part |148 pages

Abuses in the Clothing Trade

part |40 pages

Emigration to Australia as a Solution to Abuses in the Clothing Trade

part |18 pages

Abuses in the Clothing Trade after 1900

part |32 pages

The Daily News Sweated Industries Exhibition 1906

part |278 pages

Reforming Dress for Women

part |32 pages

Attitudes to the Bloomer in the 1850s

part |24 pages

Aesthetic Reforms

part |32 pages

Oscar Wilde and Dress Reform

part |16 pages

Public Reactions to Rational Dress

part |18 pages

Reviews of Rational Dress Society Bazaar, ‘The Coming Dress’, 1891

part |22 pages

The Viscountess and the Pub Landlady: Testing Tolerance of ‘Rational Dress’

part |20 pages

Dress Reform for Men

part |16 pages

Co-Operative Women and Ethical Consumption

part |10 pages

Mourning Dress

part |10 pages

Liberty and ‘Artistic’ Consumers

part |30 pages

Clothing the New Woman