What Clothes Reveal - new ed.



Linda Baumgarten

2/2012
BAUMGARTEN, LINDA.

What Clothes Reveal. The Language of Clothes in Colonial and Federal America. New ed. London 2012. 4to. XII, 266 S. mit 391 (355 farb.) Abb., Bibliographie,Index, brosch.

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This stunning book features 18th- and early-19th-century garments from the premiere collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Illustrated with more than 300 colour photographs, including many details and back views, the book 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. Drawing on contemporary written descriptions and on actual costumes of the period, the book analyzes what Americans in the 18th century considered fashionable and attractive and how they used clothing to assert status or to identify occupations.

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