This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. It explores how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century.

This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. It explores how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century.