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A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960

A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960

Goldstein, Gabriel
Greenberg, Elizabeth
Herskowitz, Sylvia A.

Hardcover

Series: Costume Society of America

JudaismFashion & AccessoriesGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $49.95

ISBN10: 0896727351
ISBN13: 9780896727359
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: Jul 31 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 3.52
Height: 1.09 Width: 8.74 Depth: 11.35
Language: English
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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