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Series:   Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

Labour of the Stitch

The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2024

Serena Dyer
Serena Dyer
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De Montfort University

Summary

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.
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Fashion historyrecreative practicematerial culturesewingmaking.
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Series: Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
Online ISBN: 9781009177689
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 18 April 2024

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