Displaying 1 of 1 2023 Format: Book Author: Carlson, Hannah, author. Title: Pockets : an intimate history of how we keep things close / Hannah Carlson. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023. Description: vii, 310 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm Summary: "A social and design history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today, that uncovers what pockets reveal about us, our place in society, and how we move through the world"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Pockets -- History. Clothing and dress -- Social aspects. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-283) and index. Contents: Pocket origins: "carried close and secret" -- Pocket proliferation: housing "the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen" -- Pocket attitudes: "but what do your hands do in your pocket?" -- Pocket sexism: "why we oppose pockets for women" -- Pocket inventories: "not a penny was there in it" -- Pocket play: designing for "doubly decorative value" -- Pocket utopias: dreaming of a pocketless world. Call Number: 391.009 CARLSON ISBN: 9781643751542 1643751549 Control Number: 823964 System Availability: 3 # System items in: 3 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Request It Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Find It Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
