'Very Picturesque and Very Canadian': The Blanket Coat and Anglo-Canadian Identity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Fashion and Identity
7. 'Very Picturesque and Very Canadian': The Blanket Coat and Anglo-Canadian Identity in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 17
8. Dressing Up: A Consuming Passion 41
9. Defrocking Dad: Masculinity and Dress in Montreal, 1700-1867 68
10. The Association of Canadian Couturiers 90
11. Fashion, Trade, and Consumption
12. Shop and Factory: The Ontario Millinery Trade in Transition, 1870-1930 113
13. The Work Being Chiefly Performed by Women: Female Workers in the Garment Industry in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1871 139
14. Three Thousand Stitches: The Development of the Clothing Industry in Nineteenth-Century Halifax 166
15. Enduring Roots: Gibb and Co. and the Nineteenth- Century Tailoring Trade in Montreal 182
16. Montreal's Fashion Mile: St Catherine Street, 1890-1930 203
17. Fashion and Transition
18. Dress Reform in Nineteenth-Century Canada 229
19. Fashion and War in Canada, 1939-1945 249
20. Fashion and Refuge: The Jane Harris Salon, Montreal, 1941-1961 270
21. Fashion and Journalism
22. Laced In and Let Down: Women's Fashion Features in the Toronto Daily Press, 1890-1900 291
23. The Fashion of Writing, 1985-2000: Fashion-Themed Television s Impact on the Canadian Fashion Press 315
24. A Little on the Wild Side: Eaton's Prestige Fashion Advertising Published in the Montreal Gazette, 1952-1972 339
25. Contributors 365
26. Index 371