‘No Small Share of Ingenuity’: An Object-Oriented Analysis of Eighteenth-Century English Dressmaking

Author:

Dowdell CarolynORCID

Abstract

This article details eighteenth-century English dressmaking through an in-depth, object-oriented exploration of garment construction practices and techniques from a maker's perspective. Building upon prior scholarship of women's work and aspects of pre-industrial English garment trades, this article employs primary and secondary source materials in conjunction with extensive object-based research of extant garments. The research findings outline exactly how pre-industrial English dressmakers’ skills were nuanced, sophisticated and adaptive to making and remaking, as well as the personal, haptic connections they cultivated with their work.

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Subject

History,General Business, Management and Accounting

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5. Carolyn Dowdell, `The Fruits of Nimble Fingers: Garment Construction and the Working Lives of Eighteenth-Century English Needlewomen' (unpublished master's thesis, University of Alberta, 2010); Carolyn Dowdell, `The Multiple Lives of Clothes: Alteration and Reuse of Women's Eighteenth-Century Apparel in England' (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Queen's University, 2015).

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