The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking

Throughout Its Long History, Homedressmaking Has Been A Formative Experience In The Lives Of Millions Of Women. This Volume Is An Account Of The Significance Of Homedressmaking As A Form Of American And European Material Culture. Part 1: Home Dressmaking, Class And Identity. Patterns Of Respectability: Publishing, Home Sewing And The Dynamics Of Class And Gender 1870-1914 -- Made At Home By Clever Fingers: Home Dressmaking In Edwardian England -- On The Margins: Theorizing The History And Significance Of Making And Designing Clothes At Home -- Making Modern Women, Stitch By Stitch: Dressmaking And Women's Magazines In Britain 1919-39 -- Home Sewing: Motivational Changes In The Twentieth Century -- There's No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking And Creativity In The Jamaican Community Of The 1940s To The 1960s -- Part 2: Home Dressmaking And Consumption. Wearily Moving Her Needle: Army Officers' Wives And Sewing In The Nineteenth-century American West -- Commodified Craft, Creative Community: Women's Vernacular Dress In Nineteenth-century Philadelphia -- Creating Consumers: Gender, Class And The Family Sewing Machine -- Patterns Of Choice: Women's And Children's Clothing In The Wallis Archive, York Castle Museum -- The Sewing Needle As Magic Wand: Selling Sewing Lessons To American Girls After The Second World War -- Virtual Home Dressmaking: Dressmakers And Seamstresses In Post-war Toronto -- Part 3: Home Dressmaking, Dissemination And Technology. 'the Lady's Economical Assistant' Of 1808 -- Dreams On Paper: A Story Of The Commercial Pattern Industry -- Homeworking And The Sewing Machine In The British Clothing Industry 1850-1905 -- The Sewing Machine Comes Home -- A Beautiful Ornament In The Parlour Or Boudoir: The Domestication Of The Sewing Machine -- Home Economics And Home Sewing In The United States 1870-1940 -- 'your Clothes Are Materials Of War': The British Government Promotion Of Home Sewing During The Second World War. Edited By Barbara Burman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.