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OverviewEarly Americans accommodated, adapted, and manipulated their clothing to adjust to their physical and social environment. This book focuses on the relationship of dress to the struggle of indigenous and immigrant Americans to fill expected and unexpected needs and express political ideologies and ethnic identity. In doing so the contributors hope to prompt readers to reconsider the place of dress in the interpretation of American culture. The casual reader of this book of essays may be surprised to learn that it has little to do with different styles of clothing or the vagaries of fashion. The contributors reveal the politics, or power, of dress, especially in its function as a symbol of American ideals, and examine changes in clothing behavior that occurred as Americans faced new experiences. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patricia Anne Cunningham , Susan Voso LabPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: Bowling Green University Popular Press,US Edition: illustrated edition Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780879725785ISBN 10: 0879725788 Pages: 221 Publication Date: 31 December 1993 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsIntroduction / Patricia Cunningham and Susan Voso Lab -- From moccasins to fr coats and back again : ethnic identity and native American dress in Southern New England / Linda Welters -- Dress for the Ohio pioneers / Carolyn R. Shin -- Nineteenth-century African-American dress / Barbara M. Starke -- The American cowboy : development of the mythic image / Laurel Wilson -- From fo to fashion : dress adaptations of Norwegian immigrant women in the Midwest / Patricia Williams -- Dressing the colonial past : nineteenth century New Englanders look back / Beverly Gordon -- The gym suit : freedom at last / Patricia Campbell Warner -- Simplicity of dress : a symbol of American ideal Patricia A. Cunningham -- War drobe and World War I / Susan Voso Lab.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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