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Genre/Form: | History Catalogues d'exposition Expositions |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Linda Baumgarten |
ISBN: | 9780879352530 0879352531 9780300181074 0300181078 |
OCLC Number: | 812504250 |
Description: | xii, 265 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction. Collecting costumes at Colonial Williamsburg -- Chapter 1. Costume : old and new connoisseurship -- Chapter 2. The myths and meanings of clothing -- Chapter 3. Homespun and silk : American clothing -- Chapter 4. Common dress : clothing for daily life -- Chapter 5. Cradle to coffin : life passages reflected in clothing -- Chapter 6. Tailoring meaning : alterations in eighteenth-century clothing -- Conclusion. Listening to clothes. |
Series Title: | Williamsburg decorative arts series |
Responsibility: | by Linda Baumgarten. |
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"Beautifully produced. . . . Like the best of exhibition catalogs, this book reaches far beyond the objects presented. . . . Well written, well priced, and full of pertinent details about the daily lives of our American ancestors, this book for both scholars and casual readers is recommended for all libraries."-Library Journal"Beautifully produced. . . . Well-written, well-priced,. . . . full of pertinent details. . . . [F]or both scholars and casual readers. . . . [R]ecommended for all libraries."-Library Journal"What Clothes Reveal is, in equal measure, an excellent lay person's introduction to the history of dress, and a vehicle for the author to show the non-clothing historian the potential that clothing has for our understanding of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century America. . . . A great read for non-specialists, a valuable resource for historians not used to looking at objects, and an essential tool for introducing students to the history of clothing in the Americas."-Emma Hart, Textile HistoryWinner of the 2003 Millia Davenport Publication Award given by the Costume Society of AmericaChosen as an "Outstanding" Title in the 2003 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Read more...


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- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
- Clothing and dress -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation -- Expositions.
- Costume -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- Expositions.
- États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Jusqu'à 1775 -- Expositions.
- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- Jusqu'à 1865 -- Expositions.
- Clothing and dress.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Colonial Williamsburg foundation -- Collections de vêtements.
- Vêtements -- États-Unis.
- États-Unis -- 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
- Vêtements.
- Moeurs et coutumes.
- 18e siècle-19e siècle (début)
- Etats-Unis.
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