A frothy Edwardian whitework bed jacket with original ribbon. The combination of Valencienne lace and fine raised whitework is quite delightful. The jacket is entirely worked in embroidery with original ribbon and is edged entirely with Valencienne lace. A lovely frothy bedjacket, one of the very best I have come across.
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A very stylish Irish crochet lace jacket with a ornate design. Large three-dimensional flowers are surrounded by smaller flowers and leaves that also has the traditional raised work. The overall shape of the jacket is enhanced by the gentle tapering scalloped sleeves. A very beautiful Irish crochet jacket with good quality workmanship.
A lavish Victorian or Edwardian silk and lawn petticoat. The silk even has a fine silk chiffon layer over it. A truly stunning petticoat, the satin-stitch raised embroidery is superb, both in design and quality of workmanship. Embellished with a original ribbon and pretty Irish crochet scalloped edging. A stunning original petticoat.
A stunning Irish crochet jacket with a elaborate design. Ornate leaves and flowers with masses of three-dimensional raised work on the flowers. The design was well thought out and the quality of the Irish crochet work is quite excellent. In good condition.
Circa 1890 - early 1900's, a wonderful Irish crochet coat with a lovely tight design of raised flowers and leaves. The coat has good volume and tapers to apprx. 50" at the back. Extremely wearable and a superb example of the best of Irish crochet. A beautiful coat with great style!
Workers told Human Rights Watch that they receivedthree-month fixed term contracts, which were extended beyond two years. Factorymanagers allegedly dismissed workers who raised concerns about workingconditions or chose not to renew their contracts. Issues raised by workers thatwe interviewed included discrimination against pregnant workers, lack of sickleave, forced overtime, and threats against unionizing.
Over the last few years, repeated incidents in which scoresof garment workers fainted while working, industry-wide protests over minimumwages, and an extremely hostile environment for independent unions in Cambodiahave raised the profile of problems in the garment industry among labor rightsadvocates locally and globally.
H&M, Gap, and Adidas were the only brands Human RightsWatch contacted that acknowledged the concerns raised about subcontracting andreiterated their commitment to protecting and promoting worker rightsthroughout their supply chain.
In this vertical painting, a woman stands near the corner of a dimly lit room, facing our left in profile and looking down at a balance she holds suspended in her right hand over a wooden table. She wears a peacock-blue velvet jacket with a white hood and fur lining, and a voluminous, mustard-yellow skirt. A window near the upper left corner is partially covered by a canary-yellow curtain. Light coming in through that window falls on the pale skin of the woman's face and hands, and highlights the white trim of her garment. Her left hand, closer to us, rests on the edge of the table near two open boxes, and a blue cloth is bunched at the back of the table to our left. Gold chains and pearl strands drape over the edge of one box. The woman stands in front of a framed painting. Much of the detail is lost in shadow but at the top center of the painting, a person surrounded by a golden halo floats in the sky with both arms raised, and is flanked by people encased within a bank of clouds. Nude people on the ground below in the painting, seen to either side of the woman, writhe, twist, and point upward.
Florence Hall Blair, born and raised in Nashville, is 73, a retired nurse. She lives 25 miles from Gallatin, in a pretty brick, ranch-style house with white shutters. After 15 years at various Tennessee hospitals, and after 15 years selling makeup for Mary Kay Cosmetics (and driving a pink Cadillac, because she moved a ton of mascara), she now occupies herself with family history.
Late in October 1942, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Grover B. Hill delivered an address to the National Home Demonstration Council in Kansas City, Missouri, in which he accentuated the important contributions which the women who lived on the nation's farms had made to the war effort during the previous crop season. He praised farm women for coming "to the nation's rescue" during the "past summer when the lack of farm labor became so critical that on many farms it appeared that a considerable amount of the bountiful harvest might be lost. . . . They streamlined their household tasks to the bare essentials and went into the fields to work shoulder to shoulder with husbands, sons, and brothers."18
During the 1943 crop year, forty-three states appointed home demonstration agents to serve as either full- or part-time WLA supervisors, nine states offered special agricultural training courses, and seventeen states operated camps for women workers. WLA recruits included farm wives and daughters, college students, school girls, teachers, store clerks, stenographers, service wives, and homemakers. These women raised vegetables in New England, topped onions in Michigan, detasseled corn throughout the Midwest, shocked wheat in North Dakota, picked cotton in the South, planted potatoes in Maine, and harvested fruits and nuts on the West Coast. They also drove tractors, fed livestock, and performed dairying and poultry work. In total, 250,000 women were placed on farms during the 1943 crop season.36
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