A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960
ISBN: 9780896727359 | 0896727351
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 7/31/2012
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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, peddlers, and shopkeepers have yet to be fully explored. In this copiously illustrated volume, twelve scholars from varied backgrounds consider the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil W... MORE
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