Download or read book Busks, Basques and Brush-braid written by Pam Inder and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part One. The development of the dressmaking trade -- 'About suppressing the Women Mantua-makers' -- 'The art and mystery of mantua-making' -- 'I bought me a gowne' -- 'Undeviating endeavours to please' -- 'At short notice ... and at most economic charges' -- The watershed of the 1870s -- Winners and losers -- Part Two. Dressmakers in fact and fiction -- Dressmakers in fiction -- Dressmakers in fact -- Ladies and their dressmakers.