Clothing through American History

Clothing through American History
Author: Kathleen A. Staples
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313084602

This study of clothing during British colonial America examines items worn by the well-to-do as well as the working poor, the enslaved, and Native Americans, reconstructing their wardrobes across social, economic, racial, and geographic boundaries. Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial America, including the social and historical background of British America, and covering men's, women's, and children's garments. The book shows how dress reflected and evolved with life in British colonial America as primitive settlements gave way to the growth of towns, cities, and manufacturing of the pre-Industrial Revolution. Readers will discover that just as in the present day, what people wore in colonial times represented an immediate, visual form of communication that often conveyed information about the real or intended social, economic, legal, ethnic, and religious status of the wearer. The authors have gleaned invaluable information from a wide breadth of primary source materials for all of the colonies: court documents and colonial legislation; diaries, personal journals, and business ledgers; wills and probate inventories; newspaper advertisements; paintings, prints, and drawings; and surviving authentic clothing worn in the colonies.

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.".

Clothing the New World Church

Clothing the New World Church
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2003
Genre: Textile fabrics
ISBN: 9780268108083

Clothing the New World Church makes a significant contribution to the fields of textile studies, art history, Church history, and Latin American studies, and to interdisciplinary scholarship on material culture and indigenous agency in the New World.

Clothing and Textile Collections in the United States

Clothing and Textile Collections in the United States
Author: Sally Queen
Publisher: Costume Society of America
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2006
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

"This Costume Society of America guide to clothing and textile collections in the United States lists 2,604 collections whose holdings include general clothing, costumes, uniforms, accessories, banners, flags, quilts. Entries include extended descriptions of holdings for more than 800 collections and black and white photographs for 245 collections"--Provided by publisher.

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.

Textiles and Clothing of Việt Nam

Textiles and Clothing of Việt Nam
Author: Michael C. Howard
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476624402

Việt Nam is the home of more than fifty ethnic minorities--such as the Cham and Thai--many of which have distinctive clothing and weaving traditions linked to antiquity. The tight-fitting tunic called ao dai, widely recognized as a national symbol, has its roots in the country's 2,000-year history of textiles. Beginning with silk production in the Bronze Age cultures of the Red River, this book covers textiles in Việt Nam--including bark-cloth, kapok and hemp--through the centuries of Chinese rule in the north, a number of independent feudal societies and the brief period of French colonial rule.

The Colonial Andes

The Colonial Andes
Author: Elena Phipps
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2004
Genre: Art, Spanish colonial
ISBN: 1588391310

"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.

Textiles in America, 1650-1870

Textiles in America, 1650-1870
Author: Florence M. Montgomery
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393732245

First published in 1984, this remains the definitive study of textiles as they were used in early American homes.

Clothing Through American History

Clothing Through American History
Author: Ann Buermann Wass
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-02-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313335338

Learn what men, women, and children have worn—and why—in American history, beginning with the classical styles worn in the early American republic through the hoop skirts and ready-made clothes worn before the Civil War. Authors Ann Buermann Wass and Michelle Webb Fandrich provide information on fabrics, materials, and manufacturing; a discussion of levels of society, daily life, and dress; and the types of clothes worn by men, women, and children, including American Indians and enslaved people. The authors have painstakingly researched such primary sources as diaries, letters, and wills of the people of the time, in addition to secondary resources. Just a few of the topics include: • The constant problems of getting fabrics, such as wool, or cotton, in the late eighteenth centuries • The types of clothes that slave men, women, and children were allowed to wear • The beginnings of patterns and the mass production of clothing in the mid nineteenth century. The volume features numerous illustrations, helpful timelines, resource guides recommending websites, videos, and print publications, and extensive glossaries.