The dress diary : secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe /
Secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe Dress diary of Mrs Anne Sykes
Kate Strasdin.
- London : Vintage, 2024.
- 10 unnumbered p., 303 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
Family (My charming Anne : Anne Burton & Adam Sykes -- Spinning into gold : the Burtons -- A lady's laundry list : Alice Burton & Mary Fletcher -- Cobwebs of fashion : Anne Sykes & I -- The chemistry of calico : Charlotte Dugsdale Sykes) -- Abroad (The first dress I wore ... : Anne & Adam Sykes -- An American abroad : Maria Balestier -- Pirates! : Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane -- Frontier women : Miss Grant, Miss Connolly and others -- Tokens of friendship : Fanny Taylor -- Goods received : Margaret Brennand) -- Letters from home (The riot and the party : Emma Taylor -- Dancing by candlelight : the Misses Wrigley -- Wardrobe of grief : Hannah Coubrough -- A grand masquerade : Hannah Wrigley -- Missing moments : Anne & Adam Sykes) -- Return (Home comforts : Sarah Newmann -- Sisters in style : Emily & Alice Burton, Charlotte Dugdale Sykes -- Upstairs, downstairs : Margaret Charnock -- The brightest of hues : Bridget Anne Peacock -- Seaside retirement : Anne & Adam Sykes). (from table of contents) Preface : A beautiful memory --
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.
9781529920819
Sykes, Anne--Diaries.
Clothing and dress--History--Great Britain--19th century. Clothing and dress--History--Social aspects--Great Britain.--19th century Textile fabrics--History--Social aspects.--19th century
Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century. Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.