What Clothes Reveal

What Clothes Reveal
Author: Linda Baumgarten
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300095805

Illustrated with more than 300 color photographs, including many details and back views, What Clothes Reveal treats not only elegant, high-style clothing in colonial America but also garments for everyday and work, the clothing of slaves, and maternity and nursing apparel.".

The Material Atlantic

The Material Atlantic
Author: Robert S. DuPlessis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107105919

A fascinating account of the trade patterns and consumption practices that arose following European colonisation of the Atlantic world. Focusing on textiles and clothing, Robert DuPlessis reveals how globally sourced goods shaped the material existence of virtually every group in the Atlantic basin during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Petticoats and Frock Coats

Petticoats and Frock Coats
Author: Cynthia Overbeck Bix
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761380531

What would you have worn if you lived during the American Revolution or the early 1800s? It depends on who you were! Women wore layers and layers of undergarments, including corsets, chemises, and petticoats, and they accessorized with gloves, hats, parasols, and fans. Men also flaunted plenty of accessories, including neckties, top hats, walking sticks, and pocket watches. Read more about Revolutionary and early 1800s fashions—from pantaloons to silk stockings to tricornered hats—in this fascinating book!

Historic American Costumes and How to Make Them

Historic American Costumes and How to Make Them
Author: Mary Evans
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0486475964

"This Dover edition, first published in 2010, is an unabridged republication of How to Make Historic American Costumes, originally published by A. S. Barnes and Company, New York, in 1942."

Conflict and Costume

Conflict and Costume
Author: Lutz Marten
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Clothing and dress
ISBN: 9781858946009

"In the second half of the nineteenth century, the influence of missionaries, traders and immigrants in what became German South-West Africa led to the adoption by the Herero of the European dress of the day: floor-length gowns, Western-style suits and hats, and military uniforms. Following the terrible German-Herero war of 1904-08 and the end of German colonial rule in 1915, the dresses and uniforms - including those of killed or departed German soldiers - became central to the rebuilding of Herero cultural identity. In Conflict and Costume, acclaimed photographer Jim Naughten captures the colourful Herero attire in a series of spectacular portraits set against the Namibian landscape." -- Inside dust jacket.

Eighteenth-Century English as a Second Language

Eighteenth-Century English as a Second Language
Author: Cathleen Hellier
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0879352515

Most of us have no problem reading novels, plays, diaries, or newspapers from the eighteenth century. But speaking eighteenth-century English can be trickier. This series of lessons has been designed to help historical interpreters and reenactors better understand the language of the period and sound more like the persons they portray. Lessons contain grammar, vocabulary, and conversational etiquette for all levels of society.