The Role of the Sewing Machine in the Social and Economic History of Everyday Life in the 19th and the First Half of the 20th Century
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https://doi.org/10.51663/pnz.64.1.15Keywords:
sewing machine, seamstress, dressmaking craft, education, housekeeping, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Kingdom of SCS/Yugoslavia, Singer CompanyAbstract
The article focuses on the sewing machine’s role in economic and social history. First, it examines the long development and the marketing and advertising techniques that enabled the sewing machine to find a place in people’s everyday lives. The second part of the article explores the Slovenian territory, the development of the education system, and, consequently, the development of the seamstress profession.
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