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Full-Text Articles in Fashion Design
Samuel Freeman's Waistcoat, Jacqueline Field
Samuel Freeman's Waistcoat, Jacqueline Field
Maine History
The article discusses the features and construction of a waistcoat worn by Samuel Freeman at his 1786 wedding. The waistcoat is in the Collection of the Maine Historical Society.
Mirror Of Culture: The Study Of A Nineteenth-Century Sewing Diary, Elizabeth M. Dellabadia
Mirror Of Culture: The Study Of A Nineteenth-Century Sewing Diary, Elizabeth M. Dellabadia
Senior Honors Projects
Hidden inside the library of the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts is wonderful resource for the study of late nineteenth-century America. When Ann Eliza Cunningham was middle aged, she compiled a sewing diary that included scraps of material from dresses she wore or China trade fabrics brought home by her father. Ann Eliza not only included assorted swatches; but she associated the fabrics with different events in her life. She includes swatches from dresses she wore on her wedding day in 1856, for Thanksgiving, and for various family celebrations like birthday parties. Similar to the work of a …