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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
Women employees of the Reliance Waist Co. pose around a work table.
Cornell University Kheel Center , 1910
The Four Most Popular Corsets in America
New York Public Library Digital Collections , 1886
Striking Shirtwaist Workers
Library of Congress , January 1910
Stacked Heel Boots
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shirtwaist Pattern Advertisement
Boston : Priscilla Publishing Co., c1906., January 1906
Shirtwaist
The Museum at FIT
Red Shirtwaist and Skirt
North Carolina Museum of History, 1890-1899
National Styles
New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1910
Mooar's Common Sense
New York Public Library, Digital Collections , 1890
Hat Pin
The Museum at FIT
Gold Hatpin
North Carolina Museum of History
Evening Slippers
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chambray Shirtwaist
North Carolina Museum of History , 1915-1925
Black and White Shirtwaist
North Carolina Museum of History , 1885-1901
Afternoon Dress
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Advertisement for Phillip's Heels
Victoria and Albert Museum
3 Piece Dress
National Museum of American History , 1898-1908
1915 Boots
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1915
1914 Corset
Victoria and Albert Museum
1910 Straw Hat
Victoria and Albert Museum, 1910