At the turn of the century; ladies of privilege could easily afford their own dressmakers; and even middle-class housewives occasionally employed competent seamstresses. But many women did their own sewing; often relying on Dressmaking; Up to Date; a how-to book published by the Butterick Publishing Company. First published in 1905 and widely considered the first modern American sewing book; this extremely rare volume is published here complete and unabridged.This Butterick manual provides clear and concise instructions for altering patterns; hand-sewing stitches; and creating shirt-blouses; skirts; wedding and evening gowns; coats; jackets; maternity wear; undergarments; bathrobes; childrens clothing; and many other articles of apparel. Todays costume historians and sewing enthusiasts will find fascinating instruction in such long-lost arts as boning a bodice perfectly; creating skirt sweepers and bust enhancers; concealing hooks and eyes; and other vintage dressmaking techniques.An indispensable archive of information on late-Victorian and turn-of-the-century clothing; this volume will be of immense interest to anyone fascinated by the fashion and costume of the period. It will also be of value to needleworkers wanting to create accurate reproductions of Victorian-era costume; or to anyone interested in applying time-honored sewing techniques to a modern wardrobe.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Novel History of the Place of WorkBy J. Edgar Mihelic; MBAThis is one of those books that ended up getting a good bit of press because it was a novel way of looking at something that is an everyday thing.The way that white collar workers do their work didnrsquo;t just happen that way; but it was a result of deliberate choices ndash; from the architecture of the buildings that the work is done in to the furniture that the workers sit on. I hadnrsquo;t thought too deeply about it; thinking that the way things are was just a bit like the way things were; only with computers. I was wrong; and Saval tracks the changes; focused on the United States from the industrial revolution on. The white-collar worker has not been devoid of the standardization and alienation that the blue-collar worker had and rebelled against. The white-collar worker just never saw their white-collar chains; instead; they looked up; hoping to move up the ladder (no matter how false that metaphor is or was).The potential for striving has; writ large; been the barrier to class to recognition of the white-collar worker for generations. The lack of upward mobility except for into the white-collar ranks is what led to unionism and workers improving their lots. The myth of upward mobility in white-collar terms is a form of social control that is not readily seen.Saval tracks this; and it makes me think if this has been a deliberate move. As production has been mechanized; there are fewer production workers and more support staff in ancillary roles to production. As more workers move out of production and the workforce is more and more professionalized; white-collar membership is the mass of workers. It is the cube that keeps them apart and alienated. Maybe it is a prison of sorts. Me?Irsquo;m not part of this at all.My office has a door.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Interesting read; but the author goes off on difficult ...By Seamike79Interesting read; but the author goes off on difficult to follow tangents from time to time. Savals choice of words can be a bit obtuse. If I wasnt currently a college student accustomed to reading academic literature; I would have found this book unmanageable at times. Regardless; interesting content overall.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. more than met the eyeBy mkdelmarCubed is really about people; their motivations; their successes and failures. It spends a lot of pages on why people; both men and women; wanted to become white-collar workers and how they coped with the office landscapes that organizations built for their employees. Read this book and you will never look fondly at any skyscraper of any vintage with admiration again; for in one way or another too many offices were; and too often still are; dehumanizing.Saval ranges widely. The author is well read on a large variety of subjects that are important to his overall discussion. He