xix, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Maryland
Baltimore
Date:
1989
Summary:
Kahn divides his book into four parts, each dealing with a discrete period of the city's sewing industries. Part 1, Springing Up, describes colonial foundations and the mid-nineteenth-century confluence of European immigrants with sewing skills, improved rail transportation, and the perfection of tools. Part 2, Summer of Content, covers the post-Civil War period, including World War I. Part 3, Fall, comes after the end of World War I, as manufacturing and distribution in Baltimore's needle trades begin to cool, never again to be the city's leading industries. Part 4 is truly a Winter Setting. Changes occur in manner of dress which are compatible with modern lifestyles, and incursions from the Orient inflict the deathblow to the needle trades--Jacket.
