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Common threads : a parade of American clothing / Lee Hall.

Title
Common threads : a parade of American clothing / Lee Hall.
Author
Hall, Lee.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown, c1992.

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Description
ix, 324 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
Subject
Costume > United States > History
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "A Bulfinch Press book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-314) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
0821219006
LCCN
^^^92003970^
OCLC
  • 25164427
  • SCSB-12221605
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library