The Lost Art of Dress

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Author : Linda Przybyszewski
Genre : Design

Summary : A New York Times Bestseller From an award-winning historian, the fascinating tale of the 20th-century women who taught America how to dress “A tribute to a time when style—and maybe even life—felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers.” —Paris Review As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and beautifully. In The Lost Art of Dress, historian and skilled dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals that this wasn't always true. In the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women—the so-called Dress Doctors—taught American women that knowledge, not money, was key to a beautiful wardrobe. They empowered women to design, make, and choose clothing for both the workplace and the home. Armed with the Dress Doctors' simple design principles—harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm, emphasis—modern American women from all classes learned to dress for all occasions in ways that made them confident, engaged members of society. A captivating and beautifully illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors, The Lost Art of Dress introduces a new audience to their timeless rules of fashion and beauty—rules which, with a little help, we can certainly learn again.

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Author : Henry N. Shore
Genre : Smuggling

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Author : Henry Noel Shore Teignmouth (5th baron)
Genre : Cornwall (England : County)

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Author : Helen Slaney
Genre : Art

Summary : This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late 18th century. At this time the reception of classical antiquity had been transformed. Interactions with material culture – ruins, sculpture, and artefacts – formed the core of this transformation. Some such interactions were proto-archaeological, such as the Dilettanti expeditions to Athens and Asa Minor; others were touristic, seen in the guidebooks consulted by travellers to Rome and the diaries they composed; and others creative, resulting in novels, poetry, and dance performances. Some involved the reproduction of experience in a gallery or museum setting. What all encounters with ancient material culture had in common, however, is their haptic sensory basis. The sense typically associated with the Enlightenment is vision, but this has obscured the equally important contribution made by touch and movement to the way in which a newly materialised Graeco-Roman world was perceived. Kinaesthesia, or the sense of self-movement, is rarely recognised in its own right, but because all encounters with sites and objects are embodied, and all embodiment takes place in motion, this sense is vital to forming more abstract or imaginative impressions. Theories of embodied cognition propose that all intellectual processes are also physical. This book shows how ideas about classical antiquity in the volatile milieu of the late 18th century developed as a result of diverse kinaesthetic relationships.

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Author : Harriet Whiting
Genre : Cooking

Summary : Harriet Whiting published her Domestic Cookery or the Art of Dressing viands, fish, poultry and vegetables and the best Modes of Making pastes, puffs, tarts, puddings, custards and preserves, and all kinds of cakes from the Imperial plum to plain cake in 1819 in Boston. This rare and delightful book is here reborn, with Harriet's fascinating original language unchanged. Rediscover the lost art of Harriet Whiting and the cookery of New Brunswick's early days.

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Author : Robin Beeman
Genre : Fiction

Summary : While Sam takes pictures of the ancient stonework, Jenna goes out with her binoculars to look for birds. She does not expect to find the rare resplendent quetzal, but she will accept what she finds, hoping that by the end of this trip she'll be able to make a decision about the rest of her life.".

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Author : Gerald Stanley Lee
Genre : Books and reading

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