Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era

<b>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.</b> <i>Clothing through Americ...

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Main Authors: Staples, Kathleen A. (Author), Shaw, Madelyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara Greenwood 2013
Edition:1st ed
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Online Access:DE-523
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Summary:<b>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.</b> <i>Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era</i> 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
Item Description:Online Ausgabe erschienen bei Bloomsbury Fashion Central: 2023
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 446 Seiten)
ISBN:9781440880155
9780313084607
DOI:10.5040/9781440880155

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