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Through the Eye of a Needle: Working Women's Dress in the U.S., 1880-1920

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Through the Eye of a Needle: Working Women's Dress in the U.S., 1880-1920

Description

An examination of the day-to-day dress of working-class women of the nineteenth and twentieth century in the wake of industrial technologies.

Creator

Through the Eye of a Needle: Working Women's Dress in the U.S., 1880-1920

Contributor

Tess Will
1895-1900 Corset
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1895-1900
Mooar's Common Sense
New York Public Library, Digital Collections , 1890
National Styles
New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1910
The Four Most Popular Corsets in America
New York Public Library Digital Collections , 1886
1901 Feather Hat
The Museum at FIT, 1901
1915 Boots
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1915
Advertisement for Phillip's Heels
Victoria and Albert Museum
1910 Straw Hat
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1910
Striking Shirtwaist Workers
Library of Congress , January 1910
Shirtwaist Pattern Advertisement
Boston : Priscilla Publishing Co., c1906., January 1906
1890s Shirtwaist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
, 1890s
3 Piece Dress
National Museum of American History , 1898-1908
1895 Petticoat
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

, 1895
1900 Petticoat
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

, 1900
1914 Corset
Victoria and Albert Museum
1897 Stockings
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1897
Women employees of the Reliance Waist Co. pose around a work table.
Cornell University Kheel Center , 1910
Gold Hatpin
North Carolina Museum of History
1907 Harper's Bazaar New York Fashion
North Carolina Museum of History
Black and White Shirtwaist
North Carolina Museum of History , 1885-1901
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