shirtwaists

The Triangle company made blouses, which were called shirtwaists.

Peter Dreier: The Fire Last Time Peter Dreier 2011

The Triangle Waist Company was the largest blouse-making factory in New York City at the time, making what were called shirtwaists or women ` s blouses on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of a-- what was then a high-rise building in New York.

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America 2003

35 In sewing classes, girls were taught to make Western clothing such as shirtwaists and aprons.

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

I just love fancy shirtwaists, an 'I spent my life ironing some of the beautifullest I've ever seen.

CHAPTER X 2010

An ', Saxon, you was made for fancy shirtwaists an' all that, but, honest to God, I can't see you payin 'for them that way.

CHAPTER X 2010

In the 1910s, immigrant women shed their shawls in favor of smart shirtwaists, the uniform of young female workers.

Singles in the City: A History Kathy Peiss 2011

It had been a normal day in the factory where hundreds of young immigrant women worked in fourteen hour shifts for six or seven dollars a week to make shirtwaists for the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire | Edwardian Promenade 2009

I could have got those fancy shirtwaists ... an 'all the rest ... and maybe a horse to ride.

CHAPTER X 2010

He had been accustomed to her only in trim tailor suits and shirtwaists, or in riding costume of velvet corduroy, and he was not prepared for this new revelation.

Chapter XVIII 2010

An 'the way some of them women gets their shirtwaists.

CHAPTER X 2010