Glass of Fashion and Style

the world she knew

Plot

Historic glass research reveals the origin of heirlooms in the mail order catalogues of Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward and the dime stores of Woolworth, the daring imitation of cut glass, the rise of the pedestal cake plate, the evolution of home baking into big business. Incuded is the remarkable history of vinegar bottles,butter and pickle dishes, the politival importance of water bottles in the early 20th Century, the impact of Prohibition, hostess gifts i the new 1950 suburbs, glass tributes to America's second century,hos military wives entertaine during the Cold War, the unexpected revival of 1930 machine made "junk" glass fifty years later, and glass for outer space and the microwave oven. The second in series of three books providing a new look at pattern and popular glass of the 19th and 20th Century.