Title |
Dress Maker. |
Publisher |
[New York] : N.Y. Union Valentine Co., No. 134 Williams St. , N.Y. |
Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
Description |
The dress maker wears the paper forms used to make a dress pattern. Her sleeves say "sleeve latest style" and "sleeve pattern."
The dress bodice says "body pattern front" and "saque front pattern," and the skirt says "le mode de paris," and "cored skirt
pattern." She stands in front of a store window that reads "Madame Slasher from Paris. Dress maker/ Parisian fits." Hickory
shirts were worn by workers, and the valentine uses provincialisms to mock the dressmaker's pretensions.
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Notes |
Text: Be jabers, its a useful insitution that ye are, / Wid yer 'gores," an' "waists," an' "boddice, an' skirts / An' if I
had a few dirt paper collars to spare, / I'd try ye wid a dozen of good hickory shirts. / Do you stick up your nose at the
shirts? Bellamalee. / Jist the thing! I'm after a lady so mighty fine / She'll be one thing to the public but another to me,
/ And won't I be illigant as her own Valentine!
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Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Comic valentines. |
Subject |
American wit and humor. |
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Fashion -- French influences -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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English language -- Provinicialisms -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Women dressmakers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
Has format |
TMP.objres.127.jpg |
Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 3.27 |