Title: A perfect fit : the garment industry and American Jewry (1860-1960) /
Authors: Goldstein, Gabriel M.; Greenberg, Elizabeth, 1972-; Yeshiva University.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Clothing trade United States History.; Jews United States History.; Jewish businesspeople United States History.
Abstract: "Investigates the U.S. fashion industry's nineteenth-century origins and the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Sewn together: the garment industry and American Jewry / Gabriel M. Goldstein [and others] -- Jewish immigrants and the garment industry: a view from London / Andrew Godley -- Jewish immigrants and the garment industry: a view from Paris / Nancy L. Green -- American Jewish identity and the garment industry / Hasia Diner -- The birth of clothing industry in America, 1815-1860 / Michael Zakim -- German Jews in the early manufacture of ready-made clothing / Phyllis Dillon -- The ready-made menswear industry of Rochester, New York, 1948-1900 / Bernard Smith -- Fitting in: advertising, clothing, and social identity among turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrants / Rob Schorman -- Form Division Street to Seventh Avenue: the coming of age of American Fashion / Joanne Olian -- Labor relations and the protocol of peace in progressive era New York / Richard A. Greenwald -- Acclimatizing fashion: Jewish inventiveness on the other (Pacific) coast, 1850-1940 / William Toll -- Kansas City's garment industry / Laurel Wilson -- From Seventh Avenue to Hollywood: fashioning early cinema, 1905-1935 / Michelle Tolini Finamore.