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Clothing through American History
Kathleen A. StaplesMadelyn C. Shaw
其他書名
The British Colonial Era
出版Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013-06-25
主題History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)History / United States / GeneralHistory / ReferenceHistory / General
ISBN9798216062165
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2KjIEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This study of clothing during British colonial America examines items worn by the well-to-do as well as the working poor, the enslaved, and Native Americans, reconstructing their wardrobes across social, economic, racial, and geographic boundaries.

Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial America, including the social and historical background of British America, and covering men's, women's, and children's garments. The book shows how dress reflected and evolved with life in British colonial America as primitive settlements gave way to the growth of towns, cities, and manufacturing of the pre-Industrial Revolution.

Readers will discover that just as in the present day, what people wore in colonial times represented an immediate, visual form of communication that often conveyed information about the real or intended social, economic, legal, ethnic, and religious status of the wearer. The authors have gleaned invaluable information from a wide breadth of primary source materials for all of the colonies: court documents and colonial legislation; diaries, personal journals, and business ledgers; wills and probate inventories; newspaper advertisements; paintings, prints, and drawings; and surviving authentic clothing worn in the colonies.