ISBN:
9781009177689
,
9781009507493
,
9781009177696
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (82 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Series Statement:
Cambridge elements. Elements in eighteenth-century connections
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
391.0094109033
Keywords:
Fashion design History 18th century
;
Costume History 18th century
;
Clothing and dress History 18th century
Abstract:
The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Mar 2024)
DOI:
10.1017/9781009177689
