| Popis: |
Among the “small things forgotten” (11) which have largely vanished from memory and from mainstream history, the ubiquitous tie-in pocket, hidden from view by the petticoats worn by British women from the Restoration to the late Victorian era, has now been salvaged from oblivion thanks to this brilliant and fascinating book co-authored by Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux. Eloquently enough, the book concludes with a close study of one of the many pockets investigated by the authors, an 185... |
