A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860–1960: Costume Society of America Series
Editat de Gabriel Goldstein, Elizabeth Greenberg Cuvânt înainte de Sylvia A. Herskowitzen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iul 2012 – vârsta ani
Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store—and you’ll appreciate the impact of the multibillion-dollar fashion industry on American culture. Yet its origins in the nineteenth-century “rag trade” of Jewish tailors, cutters, pressers, peddlers, and shopkeepers have yet to be fully explored. In this copiously illustrated volume, scholars from varied backgrounds consider the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward. Drawn from an award-winning exhibition of the same title at the Yeshiva University Museum, A Perfect Fit provides a fascinating view of American society, culture, and industrialization. Essays address themes such as the development of the menswear industry; the early film industry and its relationship to American fashion; the relationship of the American industry to Britain and France; the acculturation of Jewish immigrants and its impact on American garment making; advertising history and popular culture; and regional centers of manufacturing. This multivalent group of essays compellingly weaves together important threads of the complex history of the American garment industry.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780896727359
ISBN-10: 0896727351
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 151
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 41 mm
Greutate: 1.6 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Texas Tech University Press
Colecția Texas Tech University Press
Seria Costume Society of America Series
ISBN-10: 0896727351
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 151
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 41 mm
Greutate: 1.6 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Texas Tech University Press
Colecția Texas Tech University Press
Seria Costume Society of America Series
Recenzii
Coffee table books are generally handsome but not often scholarly. This beautiful and erudite book is an exception....[A] well researched study of the Jewish role in the garment industry illustrated by exquisite photographs of designer dresses, accessories, fashion magazine advertisements, and of the fashion celebrities themselves...It is impossible to do full justice in a brief review to the breadth and depth of this beautiful, scholarly study of Jewish involvement in the multi-billion dollar world of fashion. --Jewish Book Council
[A] fine contribution to both fashion and American Jewish history . . . significantly enhanced by the number and variety of the 152 color illustrations. --Publishers Weekly
Notă biografică
Gabriel Goldstein served as curator of the exhibition "A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry” at the Yeshiva University Museum. A specialist in Jewish art and material culture, he served at the museum for more than two decades.Elizabeth Greenberg served as assistant curator and exhibition coordinator of the exhibition. Trained as a fashion historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the Fashion Institute of Technology, she is now curator of fine arts at Siena College in Loudonville, New York.
Cuprins
Sewn Together: The Garment Industry and American Jewry (Gabriel Goldstein, Elizabeth Greenberg, Mary Kiplok, and Jessica Goldring); Jewish Immigrants and the Garment Industry: A View from London (Andrew Godley); Jewish Immigrants and the Garment Industry: A View from Paris (Nancy Green); American Jewish Identity and the Garment Industry (Hasia Diner); The Birth of the Clothing Industry in America, 1815–1860 (Michael Zakim); German Jews in the Early Manufacture of Ready-Made Clothing (Phyllis Dillon); The Ready-Made Menswear Industry of Rochester, New York, 1848–1900 (Bernard Smith); Fitting In: Advertising, Clothing, and Social Identity among Turn-of-the-Century Jewish Immigrants (Rob Schorman): From Division Street to Seventh Avenue: The Coming of Age of American Fashion (JoAnne Olian); Labor Relations and the Protocol of Peace in Progressive Era New York (Richard A. Greenwald); Acclimatizing Fashion: Jewish Inventiveness on the Other (Pacific) Coast, 1850–1940 (William Toll); Kansas City’s Garment Industry (Laurel Wilson): From Seventh Avenue to Hollywood: Fashioning Early Cinema, 1905–1935 (Michelle Tolini Finamore)
Descriere
Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store—and you’ll appreciate the impact of the multibillion-dollar fashion industry on American culture. Yet its origins in the nineteenth-century “rag trade” of Jewish tailors, cutters, pressers, peddlers, and shopkeepers have yet to be fully explored. In this copiously illustrated volume, twelve scholars from varied backgrounds consider the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward. Drawn from an award-winning exhibition of the same title at the Yeshiva University Museum, A Perfect Fit provides a fascinating view of American society, culture, and industrialization. Essays address themes such as the development of the menswear industry; the early film industry and its relationship to American fashion; the relationship of the American industry to Britain and France; the acculturation of Jewish immigrants and its impact on American garment making; advertising history and popular culture; and regional centers of manufacturing. This multivalent group of essays compellingly weaves together important threads of the complex history of the American garment industry.