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Author:

Carlson, Hannah (Historian), author.

Title:

Pockets : an intimate history of how we keep things close / Hannah Carlson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

pages cm.

Subject:

Pockets--History.
Clothing and dress--History.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
Pockets.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Pocket origins: "carried close & secret" -- Pocket proliferation: housing "the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen" -- Pocket attitudes: "but what do your hands do in your pocket?" -- Pocket sexism: "why we oppose pockets for women" -- Pocket inventories: "not a penny was there in it" -- Pocket play: designing for "doubly decorative value" -- Pocket utopias: dreaming of a pocketless world.

Summary:

"A social and design history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today, that uncovers what pockets reveal about us, our place in society, and how we move through the world"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1643751549
9781643751542

LCCN:

2023006501

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

YUPD232 -- DeWitt Community Library (De Witt)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

CGPC482 -- Marengo Public Library (Marengo)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)