The Button Box: The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore

by	Lynn Knight

SKU: 9780099593096 Categories: Cultural studies: dress and society, History, HISTORY OF FASHION, Social History Tags: 2000ad graphic non-fiction, against white feminism, art and crafts, art deco, Art history, beauty, biography, crafts for women, culture, demographics fashion trends, fashion, fashionpedia, feminism, feminism for women, history of the world, me too, memoir, Photography, red ribbon, textilepedia, The Art of War, the world at war, TWENTIETH-CENTURY HARMONY, votes for women, white ribbon, women in the war, women in white, women our history

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A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight’s family – each one with its own tale to tell…Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in suffragettes, bachelor girls, little dressmakers, Biba and the hankering for vintage, The Button Box lifts the lid on women’s lives and their clothes with elegance and wit.

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Weight	0.206 kg
Dimensions	2 × 13.4 × 17.8 cm
by	Lynn Knight
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Pages	320
Publisher	Random House
Year Published	2017-3-9
Imprint	Vintage
Publication City/Country	London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10	0099593092
About The Author	Lynn Knight was born in Derbyshire and lives in London. The women of her family passed on many stories along with beaded bags and buttoned gauntlets, and fostered her interest in the texture and narratives of women's lives. She is the author of the biography Clarice Cliff (2005), a memoir, Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of an Accidental Family (2011), and The Button Box: The story of women in the 20th century, told through the clothes they wore (2016). Miss Burnham and the Loose Thread is her first novel.
	A charming work of social history
Other text	Knight explores her own family’s history and, in parallel, the intimate history of women in the 20th century… The politics of being a modern woman are revealed through changing fashions… In Knight’s hands, buttons – the humblest of everyday objects – become portals into the past, charting our progress along that road.

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