My Life In The Ragtrade

Author : Fred Wilkinson
Publisher : Moshpit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781925219302
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life in the Ragtrade written by Fred Wilkinson and published by Moshpit Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Life in the Ragtrade" is the story of the famous Australian brand names, many developed from humble beginnings yet made in clothing factories employing thousands of people, and the grand retail stores and clothing shops that stocked those brands. In "My Life in the Ragtrade," author Fred Wilkinson takes us on a trip back in time to the days of Sidney Myer's beginnings in Bendigo, to Flinders Lane, Melbourne ('The Lane'), travelling salesmen and hawkers, and names and slogans which we've all but forgotten: Anthony Squires, Sutex, Keith Courtenay, Pelaco, Crestknit, Chesty Bond, Love Me in my Glo-Weave, Hard Yakka, He's so good he thinks he's King G, and more. Then there were the retailers - Winns, Farmer's, Anthony Hordern, Mark Foy and more. Shopping back then was an adventure, it was a pleasure to be served and customers were treated like royalty. Come, join Fred on a walk down memory lane through Australia's rich textile, fashion and retail history.

Author : Eric Newby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910898130
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Wholesale written by Eric Newby and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pam Inder
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445657309
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rag Trade written by Pam Inder and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the rag trade of the nineteenth century.

Author : Michael Shapiro
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1932361812
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sense of Place written by Michael Shapiro and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who inspired him both to pack his bags to travel and to pick up a pen and write. Michael skillfully coaxes a collective portrait through his interviews, allowing the authors to speak intimately about the writer's life, and how place influences their work and perceptions. In each chapter Michael sets the scene by describing the writer's surroundings, placing the reader squarely in the locale, whether it be Simon Winchester's Massachusetts, Redmond O'Hanlon's London, or Frances Mayes's Tuscany. He then lets the writer speak about life and the world, and through quiet probing draws out fascinating commentary from these remarkable people. For Michael it’s a dream come true, to meet his mentors; for readers, it's an engaging window onto the twin landscapes of great travel writers and the world in which they live.

Author : Henry R Lew
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1742981739
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lion Hearts written by Henry R Lew and published by Hybrid Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An exceptional book about extraordinary people living in extraordinary times. My only regret on completing it is that I have not met any of them personally.' - Christopher Bantick A biography of Lonek Lew, the author's father, told through the lives of over twenty people he was friendly or associated with, a number of whom were historical figures. Using his father's clear and detailed accounts of his life in pre-war Poland, the Holocaust and his colourful life in Melbourne, as well as personal meetings and memories, the author assembles portraits of extraordinary people living through extraordinary events.

Author : Rebecca Sampson
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1622126505
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life and Other Accidents written by Rebecca Sampson and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Smythe is a wealthy upper middle class businesswoman who has the lifestyle most of us can only dream of. Then a handsome scoundrel enters Harriet's life and her world falls apart. She loses everything: her home, her business, and her husband. With her marriage in tatters, Harriett is forced to claim benefits to live in rented accommodations in a rough area. She must travel on public transport and deal with petty officials, as well as learn to survive in a very different environment. Against the odds, Harriet tries to make a new life for herself and her family. Read about Harriet's ups and downs in this humorous portrayal of a single mother at her wit's end. My Life and Other Accidents will leave you wanting more! Rebecca Sampson is a single parent living near Portsmouth, England, where Charles Dickens was born. She offers writers' workshops and has now written seven books. "I wanted to show through the medium of comedy the type of experiences thousands of parents go through on a daily basis." Her favorite author is Agatha Christie. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/RebeccaSampson

Author : Bethan Bide
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350232467
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Fashion written by Bethan Bide and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary clothes have extraordinary stories. In contrast to academic and curatorial focus on the spectacular and the luxurious, Everyday Fashion makes the case that your grandmother's wardrobe is an archive as interesting and important as any museum store. From the moment we wake and get dressed in the morning until we get undressed again in the evening, fashion is a central medium through which we experience the world and negotiate our place within it. Because of this, the ways that supposedly 'ordinary' and 'everyday' fashion objects have been designed, manufactured, worn, cared for, and remembered matters deeply to our historical understanding. Beginning at 1550 – the start of an era during which the word 'fashion' came to mean stylistic change rather than the act of making – each chapter explores the definition of everyday fashion and how this has changed over time, demonstrating innovative methodologies for researching the everyday. The variety and significance of everyday fashion cultures are further highlighted by a series of illustrated object biographies written by Britain's leading fashion curators, showcasing the rich diversity of everyday fashion in British museum collections. Collectively, this volume scratches below the glossy surface of fashion to expose the mechanics of fashion business, the hidden world of the workroom and the diversity and role of makers; and the experiences of consuming, wearing, and caring for ordinary clothes in the United Kingdom from the 16th century to the present day. In doing so it challenges readers to rethink how fashion systems evolve and to reassess the boundaries between fashion and dress scholarship.

Author : Adam Mendelsohn
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479847186
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rag Race written by Adam Mendelsohn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Winner, 2015 Book Prize from the Southern Jewish Historical Society Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies Winner, 2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies from the Jewish Book Council The majority of Jewish immigrants who made their way to the United States between 1820 and 1924 arrived nearly penniless; yet today their descendants stand out as exceptionally successful. How can we explain their dramatic economic ascent? Have Jews been successful because of cultural factors distinct to them as a group, or because of the particular circumstances that they encountered in America? The Rag Race argues that the Jews who flocked to the United States during the age of mass migration were aided appreciably by their association with a particular corner of the American economy: the rag trade. From humble beginnings, Jews rode the coattails of the clothing trade from the margins of economic life to a position of unusual promise and prominence, shaping both their societal status and the clothing industry as a whole. Comparing the history of Jewish participation within the clothing trade in the United States with that of Jews in the same business in England, The Rag Race demonstrates that differences within the garment industry on either side of the Atlantic contributed to a very real divergence in social and economic outcomes for Jews in each setting.

Author : AJ Valente
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786459972
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rag Paper Manufacture in the United States, 1801Ð1900 written by AJ Valente and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlining the early history of the U.S. paper industry, this book provides details on paper manufacturing from the early 1800s, when American paper was created almost entirely by hand out of cotton and other plant fibers, to the discovery of wood-pulp paper and the introduction of commercial-grade paper machines during the post–Civil War period. It discusses paper machine manufacturing, major U.S. mills, the papermaking traditions of Dutch and German immigrants, the politics of papermaking, and the eventual expansion of the paper industry from New England to the forests of the Northeast, Midwest, and Northwest. Two appendices provide a census listing of more than 1,100 U.S. paper mills, along with a directory of more than 1,300 mill owners and companies. The book contains around 70 illustrations and diagrams of major mills and relevant manufacturing technologies.

Author : Miriam Sagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rag Trade written by Miriam Sagan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of New Mexico's finest contemporary poets, Miriam Sagan has consistently explored emotional clarity and compassion within life's myriad interactions. In Rag Trade she presents poems of borders--between nations and cultures, in history and the imagination. Crossing borders braids lives. Fabric serves as metaphor throughout these poems, whether the ikats of the Silk Road, prayer flags of Tibet, Rio Grande rug weaving, the garment industry of New Jersey, or Jewish ritual coverings. War, travel, immigration, and trade bring together people and ideas that don't necessarily belong together but which lead to new connections and social dynamics. Rag Trade also includes poems on women artists, such as Southwestern architect Mary Jane Colter and the painter Emily Carr, which reveal the unforeseen but entwining influences on personal history. Miriam Sagan is author of more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Her most recent books include a memoir, Searching for a Mustard Seed, and poetry, Archeology of Desire; The Widow's Coat; and The Art of Love (La Alameda Press). She is also the author of Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen Monastery; Unbroken Line: Writing in the Lineage of Poetry; co-editor with Joan Logghe of Another Desert: the Jewish Poetry of New Mexico; and co-editor with Sharon Niederman of New Mexico Poetry Renaissance.