The button box : the story of women in the twentieth century told through the clothes they wore
Knight, Lynn, 1958-2017
Books, Manuscripts
An inlaid wooden chest the size of a shoe box holds Lynn Knight's button collection. A collection that has been passed down through three generations of women: a chunky sixties-era toggle from a favourite coat, three tiny pearl buttons from her mother's first dress after she was adopted as a baby, a jet button from a time of Victorian mourning. Each button tells a story. 'The Button Box' traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity, through the first clerical girls in silk blouses, to the delights of beading and glamour in the thirties to short skirts and sexual liberation in the sixties.
Main title:
Author:
Knight, Lynn, 1958-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2017.
Collation:
306 pages ; 18 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2016.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780099593096 (pbk)
Dewey class:
391.45092391.45092 KNI746.92092
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2460329