Elizabeth Keckley in her memoir Behind the Scenes gives us an inside look at President Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, as well as a look into her own life. Elizabeth Keckley was a black slave who bought her freedom, and worked for rich families as a seamstress, including working ...
For women and children used to seasonal farming, factory wages were a new way to live and work. Employment in a mill offered twice the wages she could make as a seamstress, tailor or schoolteacher. Factory work as offered female companionship and an independent income, with many, as in ...
Your seamstress has the tools and experience to work with your clothing and textiles so they can fit your exact measurements. Or they can match up missing buttons, repair broken zips, and even patch small holes. No need to find a sewing shop nearby - you can have Taskers come to your ...
A dastardly criminal they call “the Hidden Paw,” Macavity (a mystery cat) is also the “Napoleon of Crime,” making him a feline analog to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Moriarty. It’s interesting to cast such a big name in the Macavity role, because in the stage production he doesn’t hav...
Born Chitose Sakai in a city called Gifu, just north of Nagoya, Abe’s mother was a seamstress, meaning she encountered fashion and textiles from a very early age. Growing up in a relatively remote part of Japan (her daily commute to school in Nagoya was two hours every day) she was ...
The Victorians had what one might call a morbid obsession with death and the rituals surrounding it. This obsession included memento mori —from the Latin phrase meaning “remember your mortality,”— or relics of the dead most often in the form of jewelry made with the deceased’s hair. But...
kicking a soccer ball around with his older brother while his parents worked. They did their best to keep their sons out of trouble. Memo’s mother was a seamstress and his father a hired driver in the Central Market. Memo had begun working as an apprentice in a mechanic shop at age 12...
Not making those distinctions is not just silly, sad, ignorant and irresponsible. Given the powerful stigma narcissism carries with some people who are just as clueless, it's a dangerous assessment. Retired Alpha male pol having fun. Narcissist? (Adrian Wyld/AP)You may think, as I do, that...
“I’ll do the forms right now,” I said. “And then I’ll be an official busboy.” Mr. Ryan threw me an ominous nod. “And Larry, let me stop you now. We don’t like that termbusboy. We find it demeaning. We prefer to call you busmen.” ...