Recs if you like Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close...

Teach me something new and oddly specific 💬

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The Breath of the Gods: The History and Future of the WindEyeliner: A Cultural History

The history of *[niche subject]*

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Where We Meet the World: The Story of the SensesButts: A Backstory

smut/smart pairings

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From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic ComedyI Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I'm Trapped in a Rom-Com

microhistories: “how do you even know that??”

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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous ItemsSalt: A World History

Walk walk fashion baby

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The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social TheoryAdorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity

Learning how textiles shape history

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The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s WardrobeWith Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

Niche microhistories

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Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things CloseMother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

oddly specific history

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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear DisasterStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

the greatest thing since (or until) sliced bread

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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and OurselvesThe Library: A Fragile History

👒 from head to toe 👡

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Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth CenturyUnraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment

fashion foreword

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Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and StyleThe Chiffon Trenches

unique nonfiction

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The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of PerspirationThe Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

All about textiles and fashion history

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Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesThreads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

for the love of fiber arts

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Subversive Stitch, The: Embroidery and the Making of the FemininePockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

Connecting Yarns: Fiber Arts NonFiction

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A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of YarnVanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

Femenology

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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early TimesPockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close