Find out what we wore and why we wore it in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing in American History 1620 to 1899. This fascinating reference set provides two levels of information: descriptions of clothing and material styles and discussion of why and how Americans in history wore those types of clothes. Three volumes cover eras from 1620 to 1900. For each volume, the authors provide a historical overview of the period, including information on fabrics, materials, and manufacturing; a discussion of levels of society, daily life, and dress; and the types of clothes worn by men, women, and children of the period, including American Indians, slaves, and people from the lower, middle, and upper classes. The set features numerous illustrations, including many in color; helpful timelines; resource guides recommending Web sites, videos, and print publications; and extensive glossaries.
Culture influences clothing and clothing influences the culture. Clothing can be primarily decorative or highly utilitarian; it can signal our place in society and how we earn our living. Find out what we wore and why we wore it in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing in American History 1620 to 1899. This fascinating reference set provides descriptions of styles of clothes that men, women, and children have worn in the U.S. since the early colonies of the seventeenth century, and, as important, why they wore them. In addition to chapters describing fashion trends and types of clothes, the work examines the impact that cultural history has on fashion and how fashion may serve as an impetus for change in society. Each of three volumes covers eras beginning in the 1600s, with knowledgeable authors providing a historical overview of the period, including information on fabrics, materials, and manufacturing; a discussion of levels of society, daily life, and dress; and the types of clothes worn by men, women, and children of the period, including American Indians, slaves, and people from the lower, middle, and upper classes. The set also features numerous illustrations, including many in color; helpful timelines; resource guides recommending Web sites, videos, and print publications; and extensive glossaries,
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KATHLEEN A. STAPLES is an independent scholar specializing in textiles as material culture. Over the past fifteen years, she has written about such diverse topics as clothing and textiles for the American Indian trade and the role of religion in the perpetuation of American embroidery. In 1998 she authored British Embroidery for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Staples's museum credits include exhibitions on historical knitting, lace, and embroidered samplers.
MADELYN SHAW is Vice President for Collections and Exhibitions at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts.
ANN BUERMANN WASS has a Ph.D. in costume and textile history from the University of Maryland and is the historian at Riversdale, a Federal era house museum, where she coordinates programs and exhibits. She has lectured on a variety of costume-related topics as well as presenting juried papers and research exhibits and is a member of the Costume Society of America.
MICHELLE WEBB FANDRICH is a fashion and textile historian and appraiser. She has served on the curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her published works include La Derniere Mode: Blogging Fashion (2008 in Extreme Fashion) and Costume Worldwide: A Historical Sourcebook (2008).
ANITA STAMPER is a professor at Lambuth University and previously at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her background is in costume and textile history research based on primary documentation. She authored the chapter Fashion (1900-1909) in the series American Decades: Primary Sources and also coauthored Mississippi Homespun: Nineteenth-Century Mississippi Textiles and the Women who Made Them (1989).
JILL CONDRA has taught clothing and textile history at the University of British Columbia, the University of Prince Edward Island, and the University of Manitoba. She is the co-author of The Guide to Textiles for Interiors (2003) and edited and co-wrote The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History (2007). Her clothing research, based largely on material history models, looks at clothing in its historical context and has allowed her to conduct research in many of the most exciting costume collections in the world.
