THE SEAMSTRESS of HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD / by McGraw, Erin, author 644289

“…Lucky for Nell, her experience as a seamstress to the ladies of her Kansas town translates beautifully to work as a costumer to Hollywood in the Roaring Twenties. …”

Seamstresses Damn It! Struggle Trajectories and Self-Management in Argentina’s Popular Economies by Alioscia Castronovo

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Malentendu et implicite : une nouvelle interprétation du film Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise by Wenjun Deng

Subjects: “…Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress…”
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Sydney Carton’s Other Doubles by Joel J. Brattin

“…Stryver, the ‘lion’ to Sydney’s ‘jackal’; Charles Dickens, Carton’s own creator; the innocent young seamstress who shares his fate at the guillotine in the final chapter; and finally—and perhaps most revealingly—Sydney Carton himself.…”
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Classics in Miniature by Beug, Joachim

“…Friedrich Nietzsche: Menschliches, allzu Menschliches The Faust-Idea. – A little seamstress is seduced and made wretched. A great scholar of all four disciplines is the culprit. …”
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Leggere i Classici in Oriente. Il mito della letteratura occidentale in Dai Sijie, Murakami Haruki, Azar Nafisi by Niccolò Scaffai

“…In the titles of these international bestsellers (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Kafka on the Shore), we find an oxymoron: the name of a famous, canonical Western writer or character is used in an unusual context, linked to the geography of the near or far East. …”
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“A class act: Constance Lytton and the political, literary and dramatic dynamics of suffrage prison writings” by Eltis, S

“…In 1910 suffragette Lady Constance Lytton disguised herself as a working-class seamstress, Jane Warton. Her cross-class masquerade revealed the snobbery and injustice of prison authorities’ treatment of suffragettes: as Lady Constance Lytton she was diagnosed with a weak heart and placed in the hospital wing, but as Jane Warton she was put in the Third Division and force-fed until her health gave out. …”

Expert tailor by Rahmat, Mohd Faiz

“…The system was developed to meet the needs of premises and to help independent tailor or seamstress to manage their business better. Expert Tailor combined conventional work style into a computer visual form to ensure systematic, effective, smooth and safe work progress. …”
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Reprises textuelles dans The Dew Breaker d’Edwidge Danticat by Corinne Duboin

“…The disparate nature of the book, its non-linear narrative, the plurality of stories and voices, the gaps in a fragmented, elliptic text all partake of an alternative approach to creative writing. Like a seamstress, the novelist pieces together individual stories, connecting them as the multifarious facets of a great whole. …”
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Estelle L’Hardy’s Ecstatic State and Jenny Wren’s Blessed Children: Dickens’s Invention within the Evolving Mental Sciences by Carole Koepke Brown

“…Dickens identified the reserves of transformational energy in Estelle’s ecstasy and harnessed them for Fanny-Jenny—adding, heightening, dropping elements from the Estelle case—as he improvised his small seamstress.…”
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Limitations of Upper Protective Layers as Pressure Relief Measures for Extra-Thick Coal Seam Mining: Insights from a Case Study by Yanjiang Chai, Linming Dou, Jiang He, Xiaotao Ma, Fangzhou Lu, Hu He

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Determining reasonable position of roadway for close coal seam by He Fulian, Yang Yang, Li Liang, Ouyang Feng, Zhang Xiao, Fu Lihong

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Embroidered figures: commerce and culture in the late Qing fashion system by Silberstein, R

“…Instead museum scholarship remains influenced by twentieth-century interpretations of Chinese dress as art; dominated by dragon robes and auspicious symbols, oriented around the trope of the genteel Chinese seamstress. Within this art historical account, nineteenth-century women's dress has been characterized by decay and viewed with disdain.…”

Movement of overlying rock and deformation law of surface well under multiple mining with large dip angle by Zhimin WANG, Yunpei LIANG, Quanle ZOU, Bichuan ZHANG, Qican RAN

“…Based on the mining of high-incline coal seam group in Xinjiang 1930 Coal Mine, this paper carried out similar simulation experiments of surface well deformation under high-incline coal seam group mining, by monitoring overlying rock movement, coal seamstress changes, and the axial and circumferential directions of different positions of surface well pipelines. …”
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Produktive Verschuldung by Matthias Ruoss

“… This article explores how the largest sewing machine manufacturer in the world – the US Singer Manufacturing Company – entangled seamstresses in contractually regulated credit relationships in German-speaking Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century. …”
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Couturières de Santos. Personnification mythique et manipulation rituelle des images sacrées à Mexico D.F. : le cas du Niño Dios et de la Santa Muerte by Silvia Mancini

“…These very streets overflowing with goods are patronized also by the seamstresses (dressmakers) of Santos, that is, of the sacred images they are the object of a fervent devotion in the Distrito Federal. …”
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Pedagogías textiles sobre el conflicto armado en Colombia: activismos, trayectorias y transmisión de saberes desde la experiencia de cuatro colectivos de mujeres en Quibdó, Bojayá,... by Isabel Cristina González-Arango, Adriana Marcela Villamizar-Gelves, Alexandra Chocontá-Piraquive, Natalia Quiceno-Toro

“…This article discusses the textile pedagogies incorporated in four canvases made by groups of weavers, seamstresses, embroiderers and/or craftswomen who are victims of the Colombian armed conflict in the municipalities of Quibdó and Bojayá (Chocó), Sonsón (Antioquia) and the village of Mampuján in María La Baja (Bolívar). …”
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Reassembling Documents of Life in the Archive by Maria Tamboukou

“…In this paper I look at the creation of an archival assemblage from my research with documents of life written by French seamstresses, active in the feminist circles of the romantic socialist movements of the nineteenth century. …”
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“Un autómata de fierro”: máquinas de coser, ropa hecha y experiencias de trabajo en la ciudad de Buenos Aires en la segunda mitad del siglo xix by Gabriela Mitidieri

“…Following the journeys of some of the seamstresses who acquired them illuminates experiences of life, work and family in Buenos Aires during the second half of the nineteenth century.…”
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Development of a Consumer-Based Quality Scale for Artisan Textiles: A Study with Scarves/Shawls by Denis Richard Seninde, Edgar Chambers IV, Delores H. Chambers, Edgar Chambers V

“…This has increased the need for textile producers, especially artisan textile makers (e.g., knitters, tailors, dressmakers, seamstresses, and quilters), to improve the quality of their textile products. …”
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