The Artful Pocket: A Social History of an Everyday Object in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain by Barbara Burman

The Artful Pocket: A Social History of an Everyday Object in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Barbara Burman with Ariane Fennetaux

208 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

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The Artful Pocket is the first extended study of women's tie-on pockets - specifically female accessories in the shape of bags suspended on a tape tied around the waist, often under, and always independent of, other garments. The book covers the p...

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