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Buttonhooks and Shoehorns: Shire Library, cartea 122

Autor Sue Brandon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iun 2008
The everyday need for a buttonhook began in the early nineteenth century when it was used, as an accessory to masculine fashion, to fasten stiff leather button-boots. By the 1880s, lines of buttons had become fashionable on ladies' gloves, clothing and footwear, and the development of the feminine market encouraged the production of 'fashion buttonhooks' in the wide variety of sizes, shapes and materials that are described in this book, and which can still be found by collectors today. Shoehorns were frequently produced as companions to buttonhooks, but although the latter had fallen into disuse by the 1940s, shoehorns still exist in most shoe shops and some homes to facilitate the slipping on of footwear. A 'schoying horne' was first mentioned in the fifteenth century and the imagination exercised around the well-known basic shape has resulted in the variety so interesting to present day collectors.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780852636961
ISBN-10: 0852636962
Pagini: 32
Ilustrații: 1 col
Dimensiuni: 149 x 210 x 3 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Ediția:Repr ed
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Shire Publications
Seria Shire Library

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Sue Brandon and her husband have been collecting buttonhooks since 1972. A chance discovery of three examples in a Cheshire antique shop began their collection. From the beginning they collected every type of buttonhook and this has resulted in a comprehensive collection, which now extends to other associated items such as shoehorns. Mrs Brandon is a member of the Buttonhook Society, which was founded in 1979 and has rapidly increasing world-wide membership.

Cuprins

Introduction; Buttonhooks; Shoehorns of shoelifts; A helping hand for all; Advertising and patents; Buttonhooks and shoehorns today; Further reading; Places to visit