Women’s Dress and the Demise of the Tailoring Monopoly: Farthingale-Makers, Body-Makers and the Changing Textile Marketplace of Seventeenth-Century London

Bendall, Sarah

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“…Another article in Textile History sheds light on how the production of women's garments transitioned from the hands of a general tailor in the sixteenth century to a range of specialists. This work was almost entirely carried out by men, Bendall finds, but the products consumed by women. The article offers a detailed exploration of the rise and demise of farthingale‐makers and body‐makers during the seventeenth century.…”

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The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.

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Vida, história, moda e ativismo: uma revisão sistemática da literatura sobre a participação das mulheres no ofício da alfaiataria

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2022

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Realizou-se uma revisão sistemática da literatura para analisar a dedicação das mulheres à alfaiataria, profissão tradicionalmente atribuída aos homens, na qual a participação feminina foi historicamente desconsiderada devido ao seu caráter doméstico. Utilizaram-se as bases de dados Web of Science, Scopus e Scielo para a busca na literatura, resultando em 22 artigos selecionados. Esses artigos foram divididos em 3 categorias: "estudos biográficos", "revisões históricas" e "estudos de caso e de campo". Em geral, esses trabalhos discutem as mulheres e suas relações com o trabalho da costura em contextos históricos e atuais. Embora aspectos sobre a participação feminina no ofício da alfaiataria tenham sido apontados, observou-se a necessidade de aprofundar o assunto em trabalhos futuros. Este artigo faz parte de um projeto de dissertação de mestrado em Design da FAAC/UNESP que visa documentar a participação feminina contemporânea no ofício da alfaiataria.Palavras-chave: Alfaiataria; História da moda e história das mulheres; Costura.A systematic literature review analyzed women's dedication to tailoring, a profession traditionally attributed to men, to which female participation has historically been disregarded due to its domestic nature. Web of Science, Scopus and Scielo databases were used to scan the literature, resulting in 22 articles selected. These articles were divided in 3 categories: "biographical studies", "historical reviews" and "case and field studies". In general, these works discuss women and their relations with sewing labor in historical and current contexts. Although aspects about the female participation in tailoring labor were pointed out, the need to explore the subject further is clear from these works. This paper is part of a MSc thesis project in Design research at FAAC/UNESP, which aims to document the contemporary female participation in the tailoring profession.

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Women’s Dress and the Demise of the Tailoring Monopoly: Farthingale-Makers, Body-Makers and the Changing Textile Marketplace of Seventeenth-Century London

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Vida, história, moda e ativismo: uma revisão sistemática da literatura sobre a participação das mulheres no ofício da alfaiataria

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