Description
| Product ID: | 9780099593096 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Button Box |
| Subtitle: | The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore |
| Authors: | Author: Lynn Knight |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Fashion and textile design, History of fashion, Memoirs, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in suffragettes, bachelor girls, little dressmakers, Biba and the hankering for vintage, this book lifts the lid on women's lives and their clothes. A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight’s family – each one with its own tale to tell... |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-03-09 |
