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Victorian trade card, Singer Sewing Machine, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, family sewing machine, fashion, costume, regional dress, fish wife, holiday attire,
Description
Victorian trade card shows a typical "fish-wife" of Boulogne in holiday attire. She wears the usual short skirt, ample apron and large round flaring cap of fluted white muslin.
pollution, mask, sewing machine, sewing, cotton reel, scarf, woman in scarf, street scene, Singer sewing machine, Jiayuguan, Gansu Province, Hexi Corridor, The Silk Road, north, North West China, China, Asia
sewing needlecraft sew woman women marriage married life couple marital bliss needle craft female a stitch in time saves nine stitching patch patching sews humour humor stereotypes stereotype females woman's work women's gender genders role roles proverb proverbs proverbial wife wives housewife housewives husband hubby husbands man men male males under the thumb control controls controlling downtrodden down trodden down-trodden power powerful stitches sews stitched sewed the boss bossy bossed around bossing "needle and thread" threading threads dominant dominate domination dominatrix dominated in charge repair repairing repaired repairs funny amusing stereotypical cloth clothes clothing hole holes holed crafts craftwork nag nags nagging nagged battle of the sexes home household couples bend bends bent bending over across knee trousers efficient efficiency save saving saves time management sexist sexism skill skills skilful tradition traditional traditions occupation occupations damage damaged satire quirky off beat offbeat off-beat satirical joke jokey weak feeble weakling pathetic pants happy happily house fun concept concepts comic comical comedy content contentment blissful blissfully domestic domesticity lives relationship relationships
Description
Woman bends her husband over her knee to sew up a hole in his trousers in a humorous image taken by an unknown photographer circa 1907 to illustrate the proverb "A stitch in time saves nine".
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