American Milliners And Their World

Author : Nadine Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350063761

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American Milliners and their World by Nadine Stewart Pdf

Studies of millinery tend to focus on hats, rather than the extraordinarily skilled workers who create them. American Milliners and their World sets out to redress the balance, examining the position of the milliner in American society from the 18th to the 20th century. Concentrating on the struggle of female hat-makers to claim their social place, it investigates how they were influenced by changing attitudes towards women in the workplace. Drawing on diaries, etiquette books, trade journals and contemporary literature, Stewart illustrates how making hats became big business, but milliners' working conditions failed to improve. Taking the reader from the Industrial Revolution of the 1760s to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and from Belle Epoque feathers to elegant cloches and Jackie Kennedy's pillbox hat, the book offers a new insight into the rise and fall of a fashionable industry. Beautifully illustrated and packed with original research, American Milliners and their World blends fashion history and anthropology to tell the forgotten stories of the women behind some of the most iconic hats of the last three centuries.

Author : Arthur G. Sharp
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781476693286

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The Hat That Killed a Billion Birds by Arthur G. Sharp Pdf

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was common practice for milliners to decorate women's hats with birds' feathers and plumes--and sometimes with the birds themselves. As many as 300 million birds per year were killed for this fashionable enterprise, causing the extinction of some entire species and the endangerment of others. Lawmakers and bird aficionados were slow to react to the effects of this practice, which went on almost unabated for a quarter of a century. Then, noted naturalists like George Bird Grinnell, William T. Hornaday, and President Theodore Roosevelt, who recognized the economic benefits birds provided, banded together to pass meaningful legislation to protect them and to curb the production of murderous millinery. This book explores the troubled history of millinery and its complicated relationship to birds and conservation. It explores why it took so long for the slaughter to end and how the efforts of individuals and groups brought about change.

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067401488X

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Notable American Women by Susan Ware Pdf

This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1426 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Millinery
ISBN : NYPL:33433031307154

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The Illustrated Milliner by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858055623254

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The Illustrated American by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Kimpton
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473881310

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Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions by Peter Kimpton Pdf

Based upon the authors large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era covering the hat fashions and social changes of the day. Delve further into the carnage that took place around the world, in which unscrupulous and money grabbing individuals from the Northumbrian coast in England to the Everglades in America, would callously slaughter whole colonies of birds (leaving their young to die) purely to provide the millinery trade with ornate feathers to decorate fashionable hats during that era.The book also takes the reader into the world of millinery sweatshops of poverty stricken New York and describes the conditions and deprivations under which the poorly paid workers, many of them immigrants, worked. You can even learn about the background, history and amazing life of one of the worlds greatest fashion designers, Coco Chanel, as she set out on her lifetime of fashion in Edwardian Paris.With superb fashion colour plates of the day, together with images of amazingly creative and colourful hat pins from both the UK and America, the author shares the fruits of his 40 years of postcard collecting and the highs and lows of his search for the 'Hats' postcards, as worn by his Edwardian 'girlfriends' from over 100 year ago.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Hats
ISBN : NYPL:33433008195137

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Millinery Trade Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : World politics
ISBN : SRLF:E0000218099

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Public Opinion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015055815693

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Contemporary Fashion by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf Pdf

A reference book covering individual designers and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Informative essays mirror the many facets of the fashion world.

Author : William Temple Hornaday
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015049811949

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Hornaday's American Natural History by William Temple Hornaday Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433070796689

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Our Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Charles Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Fishing
ISBN : NYPL:33433000728000

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The American Angler by William Charles Harris Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UIUC:30112077146964

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The American Exporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pratt Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033943500

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Pratt Institute Monthly by Pratt Institute Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Horticulture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924070852599

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North American Horticulturist by Anonim Pdf