Fashion in American Life

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Fashion in American Life
Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters

Section One: Refashioning the Everyday

Introduction: Refashioning the Everyday
Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters

1 Sovereignty Every Day: Mobilizing Indigenous Fashion from the Northwest Coast
Laura J. Allen

2 Haoles in Hawaiian Shirts
Andrew Reilly

3 "Smart Togs for Action": Everyday Clothes for Rural Women in Texas in the 1950s
Rebecca Jumper Matheson

4 Examining the Ordinary: Mourning Adornment and Black Death
Rikki Byrd

Section Two: Revisiting the Everyday

Introduction: Revisiting the Everyday
Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters

5 Rags: The Birth of Personal Style in Print
Laura McLaws Helms

6 Playing Seminole Indian: The Cultural Appropriation of Seminole Men's Fashion
Amanda Thompson

7 Working from the Periphery: The National Association of Fashion and Accessories Designers (NAFAD) and the Promotion of Black Fashion
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

8 Primitivizing Accessories: 'Slave Jewelry' and the Construction of White Femininity in 1920s America
Victoria Rose Pass

Section Three: Recovering the Everyday

Introduction: Recovering the Everyday
Hazel Clark and Lauren Downing Peters

9 Extra-ordinary Americans: Oral History, Workwear, and the U.S. Postal Service
Alison Bazylinski, Lynn Heidelbaugh, and Rachel Lifter

10 1970s Fashion and Women: Finding the Everyday at the Intersection of Image, Archive and Oral History
Alexis Romano

11 Preserving the Latinx Sartorial Experience Through Digital Archives
Michelle McVicker

12 Self-Fashioning, Participatory Research, and the "Will to Adorn"
Diana Baird N'Diaye

Index