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A Perfect Fit - The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960 (Hardcover)
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A Perfect Fit - The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960 (Hardcover)
Series: Costume Society of America Series
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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, pedlars, 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 industrialisation. 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 centres 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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