All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume

UW-Digital Collections is pleased to announce this new collection that explores the craft and profession of millinery, dressmaking, fashion, vocational history, drawing and design.

The books selected for the All Sewn Up collection were published between 1907 and the 1940s and include such titles as Practical Millinery, Textiles and Costume Design, Thrift Clothing and Woman as Decoration, among 32 others.

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"If you are labouring under the delusion that the beret is merely a small round felt hat with a closely fitting headband, then my primary aim must be to disillusion you as quickly as possible."
[from Winifred Reiser’s Your Millinery, 1949; Chapter 6: The Beret, page 61]