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 This three-volume edition presents previously unpublished documents which illuminate key developments and issues in clothing in nineteenth-century England.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |148 pages
Abuses in the Clothing Trade
part |38 pages
The Dressmaker as a Social Problem in Mid-Century
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 |20 pages
Reforming Practice: Amateurs take over from Professional Dressmakers
part |278 pages
Reforming Dress for Women
part |32 pages
Attitudes to the Bloomer in the 1850s
part |24 pages
Aesthetic Reforms
part |48 pages
Reforms in the 1880s
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