Fashion and family history : interpreting how your ancestors dressed

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Label

Fashion and family history : interpreting how your ancestors dressed

Title remainder

interpreting how your ancestors dressed

Statement of responsibility

Jayne Shrimpton

Creator

• Shrimpton, Jayne

Author

• Shrimpton, Jayne

Subject

• Fashion -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Fashion -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Great Britain -- Genealogy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Handbooks and manuals
• Instructional and educational works
• Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Instructional and educational works
• Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Handbooks and manuals

Language

eng

Summary

"Studying dress history teaches us much about the past. In this skillfully illustrated, accessible and authoritative book, Jayne Shrimpton demonstrates how fashion and clothes represent the everyday experiences of earlier generations, illuminating the world in which they lived. As Britain evolved during the 1800s from a slow-paced agrarian society into an urban-industrial nation, dress was transformed. Traditional rural styles declined and modern city modes, new workwear and holiday gear developed. Women sewed at home, while shopping advanced, novel textiles and mass-produced goods bringing affordable fashion to ordinary people. Many of our predecessors worked as professional garment-makers, laundresses or in other related trades: close to fashion production, as consumers they looked after their clothes. The author explains how, understanding the social significance of dress, the Victorians observed strict etiquette through special costumes for Sundays, marriage and mourning. Poorer families struggled to maintain standards, but young single workers spent their wages on clothes, the older generation cultivating their own discreet style. Twentieth-century dress grew more relaxed and democratic as popular culture influenced fashion for recent generations who enjoyed sport, cinema, music and dancing."--Amazon.com

Member of

• Family history from Pen and Sword

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

• 391.0094109034
• 391.00941

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

• GT737
• CS415

LC item number

• .S47 2020
• .S5453 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• handbooks

Series statement

Family history from Pen and Sword

Target audience

adult