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n nne ykes was given a diary on her wedding day sing it to collect snippets of fabric she created a record of her life and times early two hundred years later the diary fell into the hands of fashion historian ate trasdin who spent the next six years unravelling the secrets contained within its pages
iece by piece she charts nnes life and times ragments of cloth become windows into ictorian life pirates in orneo the complicated etiquette of mourning poisonous dyes the ritish mpire in full swing rioting over working conditions and the terrible human cost of ritains cotton industry hrough the evidence of waistcoats ball gowns and mourning outfits trasdin lays bare the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums the clothes we choose to wear
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