Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index.
Contents:
Preface: A beautiful memory -- Family -- Abroad -- Letters from home -- Return.
Summary:
Through the discovery of one Victorian woman's textile scrapbook, a fashion historian and museum curator unravels the secrets within its pages and the lives of the people within, charting, piece by piece, the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes people wear.
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