Common threads : a parade of American clothing /

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Author / Contributor: Hall, Lee
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Boston : Little, Brown, c1992.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Series:Internet Archive Lending Library
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. c. 1492-1800. 1. In the Beginning... 2. The Seventeenth Century: Mixing Cultures. 3. Birth of a Country: The Eighteenth Century
  • Pt. II. The Nineteenth Century. 4. Overview: 1800-1899. 5. Manufacturing and the Work Force: Industrialization and Clothing. 6. Communication and the Cult of Womanhood. 7. The Sewing Machine and the Paper-Pattern Empires. 8. Dress Reform. 9. Masters and Slaves: Southern Hierarchy and Clothing. 10. Western Frontier. 11. Levi's. 12. Conspicuous Consumption and Self-Consciousness
  • Pt. III. The Twentieth Century. 13. Overview: The Twentieth Century. 14. Clothing for the Ages. 15. The Roaring Twenties: Dress Reform Redux. 16. Sports. 17. Gender and Clothing: Identity, Self, and Society. 18. College Styles. 19. Consumerism and Communication. 20. Diversity and Uniformity. 21. Superstar's: The New Aristocracy.