“The Pocket” Design Competition | The Winners
In the summer of 2020, we asked dress history enthusiasts from across the globe to get crafty (18th century style!) with “The Pocket” Design…
Barbara Burman
“The Pocket” Design Competition | Decorate Your Own 18th-century Pocket
The Pocket Design Competition 2020 Unlike the pockets found on women’s clothing today, pockets in the 18th-century were highly practical, large, and detachable. Such…
A “Pocket” History of Women’s Lives (1660-1900)
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, thimbles, keys, money, snuff – women and girls carried a startling array of things in their capacious tie-on pockets throughout…