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Author Strasdin, Kate, author.

Title The dress diary : secrets from a Victorian woman's wardrobe / Kate Strasdin.

Edition First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publication Info. New York : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3061137~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  391.0094109 STR    AVAILABLE
 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  391.0094109 STR    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  391.0094109 STR    AVAILABLE
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Description 303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Social aspects.
Textile fabrics -- History -- 19th century -- Social aspects.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
Sykes, Anne -- Diaries.
ISBN 9781639364213 hc.
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