American milliners and their World : women's work from revolution to rock and roll

Author

• Stewart, Nadine

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9781350063785

Series

Subject(s)

• MILLINERY WORKERS
• WOMEN EMPLOYEES
• WOMEN--EMPLOYMENT

Notes

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Abstract

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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiv, 217 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Milaners to Milliners --
The Woman's Sphere --
War and Millinery --
The Gilded Age --
The Progressive Age --
The Men of The Milliner --
1920s --
1930s --
War and Style --
Rise of the Hairstyle --
French-Fried Curls.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	01484/21	331.4887420973 Ste A	Online !	Available