{"product_id":"9781350525832","title":"Blouse Fashion, Manufacturing and Social Change for Women in Britain, 1890-1920","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBlouse\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFashion, Manufacturing and Social Change for Women in Britain, 1890-1920\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSuzanne Rowland\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesign \/ Fashion \u0026amp; Accessories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this pioneering history, Suzanne Rowland reveals how the blouse became both the foundation of ready-to-wear fashion and a powerful symbol of female identity and independence.\u003c\/b\u003e This everyday garment, though physically lightweight, emerges as an industrial and social heavyweight in early 20th-century movements towards modernization and democratization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking beyond the world of couture, this book illuminates the lives of the working-class women who designed, manufactured, and wore these blouses. Through a rich material culture-based analysis of over 400 blouses in museum collections and an array of trade and archival sources, \u003ci\u003eThe Blouse\u003c\/i\u003e traces the garment's journey from the restrictive, high-collared styles of the Victorian and Edwardian era through to the practical shirts of the professional 'New Woman'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRowland connects the rise of industrial technology, like the Singer sewing machine and Eastman cloth-cutters, to the women who operated them, showing how mass production not only professionalized female labour but also made fashion accessible and affordable for working-class women for the first time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis persuasive account of fashion, class and modernity, told through the compelling history of a single, revolutionary garment is essential reading for scholars and researchers in the history of dress, fashion, gender, business and material culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSuzanne Rowland\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Fashion and Dress History at the University of Brighton, UK. She is a material culture scholar with research interests in everyday fashion design and manufacturing and consumption, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eMaking Edwardian Costumes for Women\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24 June 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350525832\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e192\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52227916333196,"sku":"9781350525832","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_d07c2c4d-703f-4496-ac4f-bc7821cff54b.jpg?v=1786502471","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350525832","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}