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What Sewing a Victorian Corset Taught Me About Fast Fashion (yeah, they're connected)
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If you were ever curious as to why I'm so passionate about fashion history, this video is a really great example as to why.
Sources:
Report of the Commission to Investigate Conditions of Wage-Earning Women and Minors, Appointed by the Governor, 1911. Published by the State, 1913. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Report_of_the_Commission_to_Investigate/GPQsAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA7&printsec=frontcover
A Trade School for Girls: A Preliminary Investigation In a Typical Manufacturing City. Worcester, Mass. 1913. https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Trade_School_for_Girls/640aAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=a%20trade%20school%20for%20girls%20a%20preliminary%20investigation%20in%20a%20typical%20manufacturing%20city&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover
Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791. Clare Crowston. https://amzn.to/4b3ekPO
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