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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Notes on Contributors | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Home Dressmaking, Class and Identity | |
| 1 | Patterns of Respectability: Publishing, Home Sewing and the Dynamics of Class and Gender 1870-1914 | 21 |
| 2 | Made at Home by Clever Fingers: Home Dressmaking in Edwardian England | 33 |
| 3 | On the Margins: Theorizing the History and Significance of Making and Designing Clothes at Home | 55 |
| 4 | Making Modern Woman, Stitch by Stitch: Dressmaking and Women's Magazines in Britain 1919-39 | 73 |
| 5 | Home Sewing: Motivational Changes in the Twentieth Century | 97 |
| 6 | There's No Place Like Home: Home Dressmaking and Creativity in the Jamaican Community of the 1940s to the 1960s | 111 |
| Pt. 2 | Home Dressmaking and Consumption | |
| 7 | Wearily Moving her Needle: Army Officers' Wives and Sewing in the Nineteenth-Century American West | 129 |
| 8 | Commodified Craft, Creative Community: Women's Vernacular Dress in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia | 141 |
| 9 | Creating Consumers: Gender, Class and the Family Sewing Machine | 157 |
| 10 | Patterns of Choice: Women's and Children's Clothing in the Wallis Archive, York Castle Museum | 169 |
| 11 | The Sewing Needle as Magic Wand: Selling Sewing Lessons to American Girls after the Second World War | 193 |
| 12 | Virtual Home Dressmaking: Dressmakers and Seamstresses in Post-War Toronto | 207 |
| Pt. 3 | Home Dressmaking, Dissemination and Technology | |
| 13 | The Lady's Economical Assistant of 1808 | 223 |
| 14 | Dreams on Paper: A Story of the Commercial Pattern Industry | 235 |
| 15 | Homeworking and the Sewing Machine in the British Clothing Industry 1850-1905 | 255 |
| 16 | The Sewing Machine Comes Home | 269 |
| 17 | A Beautiful Ornament in the Parlour or Boudoir: The Domestication of the Sewing Machine | 285 |
| 18 | Home Economics and Home Sewing in the United States 1870-1940 | 303 |
| 19 | 'Your Clothes are Materials of War': The British Government Promotion of Home Sewing during the Second World War | 327 |
| Index | 341 |
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