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All Sewn Up : Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume

This digital collection includes millinery, dressmaking, clothing and costume books from the UW-Madison collections. These books from the first half of the 20th century (1907 – 1940's) include the history of clothing, styles of dress, fashion drawing, and design and construction of hats, clothing and costumes. Items in this collection will appeal to vintage clothing collectors, those studying costume design, fashion, and women's history, and those who just enjoy reminiscing about days gone by.

Millinery and dressmaking were popular professions for women in the decades before and just after the turn of the 20th century. The 1900 census1 reported 338,144 women dressmakers, 138,724 seamstresses, and 82,936 women milliners in the continental United States. Dressmaking ranked third, seamstressing ranked ninth, and millinery ranked fourteenth among occupations for women breadwinners.

Summer courses in millinery and dressmaking were offered by the Home Economics department of the UW-Madison's School of Agriculture during the 1910's and 1920's. Perhaps Miss Schmit, Miss Dodge, Miss Arbogast, Miss Musgrave or one of the other instructors introduced some of these books to their summer students. In any event, the digitized versions will serve to preserve millinery and dressmaking history and techniques, and reintroduce them to a new generation of scholars and practitioners.

"Statistics of Women at Work; Based on Unpublished Information Derived from Schedules of the Twelfth Census, 1900" (Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of Census) Washington 1907

All Sewn Up : Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume

This digital collection includes millinery, dressmaking, clothing and costume books from the UW-Madison collections. These books from the first half of the 20th century (1907 – 1940's) include the history of clothing, styles of dress, fashion drawing, and design and construction of hats, clothing and costumes. Items in this collection will appeal…
Image Source: Lesson XXIX: Original dress designing from Edith Young's Student's manual of fashion drawing: thirty lessons with conventional charts

All Sewn Up : Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and CostumeIn the Collection

  • The dress you wear and how to make it
  • Practical millinery
  • Woman as decoration
  • Art in costume design : practical suggestions for those interested in art, sewing, history and literature
  • The art of millinery : a complete series of practical lessons for the artiste and the amateur
  • Dressmaking, a manual for schools and colleges
  • Garment construction in schools
  • Sewing and textiles : a textbook for grades and rural schools
  • Make your own hats
  • Your millinery
  • Clothing for women : selection, design, construction; a practical manual for school and home
  • How to make hats; a method of self-instruction using job sheets--fully illustrated
  • Dressmaking made easy
  • A century of hats and the hats of the century
  • How to make and trim your own hats
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  • This compilation (including design, introductory text, organization, and descriptive material) is copyrighted by University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

    This copyright is independent of any copyright on specific items within the collection. Because the University of Wisconsin Libraries generally do not own the rights to materials in these collections, please consult copyright or ownership information provided with individual items.

    Images, text, or other content downloaded from the collection may be freely used for non-profit educational and research purposes, or any other use falling within the purview of "Fair Use".

    In all other cases, please consult the terms provided with the item, or contact the Libraries.

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