Fashions of the Hour
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Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen
Author : Sarah Jane Downing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2011-08-20
Category : Design
ISBN : 0747809429
Book Description
The broader Regency period 1795 to 1820, stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history, unlike anything that went before it. For the first time England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became the toast of Paris, as court dress became secondary to the season-by-season flux of fashion as we know it today. Sarah Jane Downing explores the fashion revolution and the innovation that inspired a flood of fashions taking influence from far afield. It was an era of contradiction immortalised by Jane Austen, who adeptly used the new-found diversity of fashion to enliven her characters: Wickham's military splendour; Mr Darcy's understated elegance; and Miss Tilney's romantic fixation with white muslin.
Remembering Marshall Field's
Author : Leslie Goddard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1439670579
Book Description
or more than 150 years, Marshall Field's reigned as Chicago's leading department store, celebrated for its exceptional service, spectacular window displays, and fashionable merchandise. Few shoppers recalled its origins as a small dry goods business opened in 1852 by a New York Quaker named Potter Palmer. That store, eventually renamed Marshall Field and Company, weathered economic downturns, spectacular fires, and fierce competition to become a world-class retailer and merchandise powerhouse. Marshall Field sent buyers to Europe for the latest fashions, insisted on courteous service, and immortalized the phrase "give the lady what she wants." The store prided itself on its dazzling Tiffany mosaic dome, Walnut Room restaurant, bronze clocks, and a string of firsts including the first bridal registry and first book signing.
Marshall Field's Food and Fashion
Author : Joan Greene
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764933202
Book Description
You can shop 'til you drop at Marshall Field's--and then recover with a great meal at one of the store's restaurants. Munch on the famous Frango mints while browsing through the store, or dine at the famous Walnut Room and have some of Mrs. Hering's famous chicken potpie. Pull out your charge card and order up the latest at the 28 Shop or Thomas Pink's--and have a nifty Marshall Field's London taxicab deliver your goods. Chicago's legendary Marshall Field and Company, the department store by which retail is measured, maintains its solid reputation for innovative fashion by conducting wardrobe workshops, carrying the best of European design, never overlooking customer service, and offering shoppers everything they could hope for. A Chicago Tradition: Marshall Field's Food and Fashion explores a retail icon's gustatory and fashion sense. How the original tearoom came about; how and why Mrs. Hering, a millinery salesclerk, got a menu item named after her; and just what makes Frango Mints so special are explained. Five of Field's all-time favorite recipes are shared with the reader; gorgeous photographs give us a glimpse of dining in days gone by. Also discussed and illustrated are some unique fashion firsts from Field's: first bridal registry, first men's store, first boutique. Take an intimate tour of one of the few remaining department stores totally devoted to quality and the customer, and sample a bit of Chicago history along the way. Written by Joan Greene, with the Chicago Cultural Center Foundation. 64 pages with smyth-sewn casebound binding and jacket. Size: 5 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. 46 black-and-white and color images; and 5 recipes including Mrs. Hering's Chicken Pot Pie, and Field's Ice Cream Snowman Sundae.
Brides, Inc.
Author : Vicki Howard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,29 MB
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812220452
Book Description
Reveals how many of our customs and wedding rituals were the product of sophisticated advertising campaigns, merchandising promotions, and entrepreneurial innovations. The businesses and entrepreneurs, from jewelers to bridal consultants and caterers, set the stage for today's multibillion-dollar industry.
Counter Cultures
Author : Susan Porter Benson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252060137
Book Description
The luxurious appearance and handsome profits of American department stores from 1890 to 1940 masked a three-way struggle among saleswomen, managers, and customers for control of the selling floor. Counter Cultures explores the complex nature and contradictions of the conflict in an arena where class, gender, and the emerging culture of consumption all came together. "Counter Cultures is a path-breaking and imaginative social history. Benson has made an original and sophisticated contribution to the study of the work process in the service sector." -- Journal of American History "Counter Cultures advances our understanding of the history of women and work, and it does so in an engaging way that should command the attention not only of historians but of a general readership as well." -- Women's Review of Books
Printers' Ink Monthly
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Publisher :
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Advertising
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Book Description
Two-Hour Dolls' Clothes
Author : Anita Louise Crane
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780806922652
Book Description
“Crane is an accomplished watercolorist, and her illustrations add the flavor of a beautifully illustrated children’s book to this volume. Each design includes a photograph of a doll or teddy bear wearing the garment, a drawing of the completed design, drawn full-size patterns, a materials list, and step-by-step instructions. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal. “Directions feature lists of fabrics, tools, and notions as well as step-by-step instructions.”—Booklist.
Sartorial Fandom
Author : Elizabeth Affuso
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472903381
Book Description
In recent years, geeks have become chic, and the fashion and beauty industries have responded to this trend with a plethora of fashion-forward merchandise aimed at the increasingly lucrative fan demographic. This mainstreaming of fan identity is reflected in the glut of pop culture T-shirts lining the aisles of big box retailers as well as the proliferation of fan-focused lifestyle brands and digital retailers over the past decade. While fashion and beauty have long been integrated into the media industry with tie-in lines, franchise products, and other forms of merchandise, there has been limited study of fans’ relationship to these items and industries. Sartorial Fandom shines a spotlight on the fashion and beauty cultures that undergird fandoms, considering the retailers, branded products, and fan-made objects that serve as forms of identity expression. This collection is invested in the subcultural and mainstream expression of style and in the spaces where the two intersect. Fan culture is, in many respects, an optimal space to situate a study of style because fandom itself is often situated between the subcultural and the mainstream. Collectively, the chapters in this anthology explore how various axes of lived identity interact with a growing movement to consider fandom as a lifestyle category, ultimately contending that sartorial practices are central to fan expression but also indicative of the primacy of fandom in contemporary taste cultures.
Art Deco Chicago
Author : Robert Bruegmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Design
ISBN : 0300229933
Book Description
An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it.
