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

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Title

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
  • Collection: Through the Eye of a Needle: Working Women's Dress in the U.S., 1880-1920
Shirtwaist
The Museum at FIT
Stacked Heel Boots
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Afternoon Dress
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Evening Slippers
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1892 Hat
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1892
1900 Hat
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1900
Hat Pin
The Museum at FIT
Red Shirtwaist and Skirt
North Carolina Museum of History, 1890-1899
Chambray Shirtwaist
North Carolina Museum of History , 1915-1925
Black and White Shirtwaist
North Carolina Museum of History , 1885-1901
1907 Harper's Bazaar New York Fashion
North Carolina Museum of History
Gold Hatpin
North Carolina Museum of History
Women employees of the Reliance Waist Co. pose around a work table.
Cornell University Kheel Center , 1910
1897 Stockings
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1897
1914 Corset
Victoria and Albert Museum
1900 Petticoat
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

, 1900
1895 Petticoat
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

, 1895
3 Piece Dress
National Museum of American History , 1898-1908
1890s Shirtwaist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
, 1890s
Shirtwaist Pattern Advertisement
Boston : Priscilla Publishing Co., c1906., January 1906