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A perfect fit : the garment industry and American Jewry (1860-1960)

Title
A perfect fit : the garment industry and American Jewry (1860-1960) / edited by Gabriel Goldstein and Elizabeth Greenberg ; foreword by Sylvia A. Herskowitz.
Publication
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Goldstein, Gabriel M.
  • Greenberg, Elizabeth, 1972-
  • Yeshiva University. Museum.
Description
237 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
"Investigates the U.S. fashion industry's nineteenth-century origins and the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
Costume Society of America series
Uniform Title
Costume Society of America series.
Subject
  • Clothing trade > United States > History
  • Jews > United States > History
  • Jewish businesspeople > United States > History
Note
  • "Published for Yeshiva University Museum."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index.
Contents
Sewn together: the garment industry and American Jewry / Gabriel M. Goldstein, ... [et al.] -- Jewish immigrants and the garment industry: a view from London / Andrew Godley -- Jewish immigrants and the garment industry: a view from Paris / Nancy L. Green -- American Jewish identity and the garment industry / Hasia Diner -- The birth of 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, 1948-1900 / Bernard Smith -- Fitting in: advertising, clothing, and social identity among turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants / Rob Schorman -- Form 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.
Call Number
JBF 18-148
ISBN
  • 9780896727359 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0896727351 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011047039
OCLC
761482167
Title
A perfect fit : the garment industry and American Jewry (1860-1960) / edited by Gabriel Goldstein and Elizabeth Greenberg ; foreword by Sylvia A. Herskowitz.
Imprint
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2012.
Series
Costume Society of America series
Costume Society of America series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-225) and index.
Added Author
Goldstein, Gabriel M.
Greenberg, Elizabeth, 1972-
Yeshiva University. Museum.
Sudoc No.
Z TT422.8 P416fi txdocs
Research Call Number
JBF 18-148
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