The Paris Review - The Dress Diary of Mrs. Anne Sykes
“Carefully pasted in place were four pieces of fabric, three of them framed in decorative waxed borders—scraps of silk important enough to have been memorialized.”
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“Carefully pasted in place were four pieces of fabric, three of them framed in decorative waxed borders—scraps of silk important enough to have been memorialized.”
A book containing more than 2,000 pieces of fabric is a beautiful window onto Victorian Britain—and its rapid economic and societal changes