TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strasdin,Kate
TI  - The dress diary: secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe 
SN  - 9781529920819
AV  - GT737 .S77 2024
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage
KW  - Sykes, Anne
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Textile fabrics
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
N1  - K_B; Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index; (from table of contents); Preface : A beautiful memory --; 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)
N2  - 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
ER  -