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Author:

Baumgarten, Linda.

Title:

What clothes reveal : the language of clothing in colonial and federal America : the Colonial Williamsburg Collection / by Linda Baumgarten.

Publisher:

In association with Yale University Press,
In association with Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xii, 265 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

Subject:

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Costume--History.--United States--History.
United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Other Authors:

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-257) and index.

Contents:

Conclusion : listening to clothes. ch. 6. Costume : old and new connoisseurship -- ch. 2. The myths and meanings of clothing -- ch. 3. Homespun and silk : American clothing -- ch. 4. Common dress : clothing for daily life -- ch. 5. Cradle to coffin : life passages reflected in clothing -- ch. 6. Tailoring meaning : alterations in eighteenth-century clothing -- Conclusion : listening to clothes.

ISBN:

9780300095807 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0300095805 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780879352165 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0879352167 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49959172
(OCoLC)51001963

LCCN:

2002007297

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)