Ready-Made

I find myself wondering if Isabel was related to Edwin Dodd of Antonia Forest's _The Ready-Made Family_.

Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

Note 13: Rob Schorman, "Ready or Not: Custom-Made Ideals and Ready-Made Clothes in Late 19th-Century America," Journal of American Culture 19 (1996): 111-120, 111. back

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

Note 62: Katherine Cranor, "Homemade Versus Ready-Made Clothing," Journal of Home Economics 12 (May 1920): 230-233, 230. back

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

Note 14: Katherine Cranor, "Homemade Versus Ready-Made Clothing," Journal of Home Economics 12 (May 1920): 230-233, 230 and O'Brien and Campbell, 13. back

"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

If you've been craving a good crafts project, two new books will help put your hands to work: "Ready-Made" ($16.50; amazon. com), by ReadyMade magazine founders Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne, and "D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself," by Ellen Lupton, a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and her students ($19.95; in stores next month).

Home: Think Like MacGyver 2007

"Ready-Made" tackles everything from stationery to home decor (including a cool doormat made from wooden clothespins).

Home: Think Like MacGyver 2007

The Ready-Made Family and boy was THAT distressing!

Books! ailbhe 2007

The growing child walks down the years -- turns every corner of life -- with Vistas of Ready-Made Clothing hanging before him, closing behind him.

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

Xcel, a brand licensing and management company, is buying Mizrahi's IM Ready-Made LLC company for $31.5 million.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

Another study by Roy Chowdhury, 'Women, Work and Activism in Ready-Made Garments Industry', that came out last year, provides some answers to these questions.

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