The dress diary : secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe / Kate Strasdin.
Book | Pegasus Books | 2023 | First Pegasus books cloth edition.
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Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Description
303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents
Preface: A beautiful memory -- Family -- Abroad -- Letters from home -- Return.
Summary
Through the discovery of one Victorian woman's textile scrapbook, a fashion historian and museum curator unravels the secrets within its pages and the lives of the people within, charting, piece by piece, the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes people wear.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
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ISBN
9781639364213 (hardcover)
1639364218 (hardcover)
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