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Author | : Deirdre Clemente |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1469614073 |
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Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style
Author | : Linda Przybyszewski |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2014-04-29 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0465080472 |
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"A tribute to a time when style -- and maybe even life -- felt more straightforward, and however arbitrary, there were definitive answers." -- Sadie Stein, Paris Review As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We lack the fashion know-how we need to dress professionally and beautifully. In The Lost Art of Dress, historian and dressmaker Linda Przybyszewski reveals that this wasn't always true. In the first half of the twentieth century, a remarkable group of women -- the so-called Dress Doctors -- taught American women that knowledge, not money, was key to a beautiful wardrobe. They empowered women to design, make, and choose clothing for both the workplace and the home. Armed with the Dress Doctors' simple design principles -- harmony, proportion, balance, rhythm, emphasis -- modern American women from all classes learned to dress for all occasions in ways that made them confident, engaged members of society. A captivating and beautifully illustrated look at the world of the Dress Doctors, The Lost Art of Dress introduces a new audience to their timeless rules of fashion and beauty -- rules which, with a little help, we can certainly learn again.
Author | : Edward Warwick |
Publisher | : New York, B. Blom 1965 |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Clothing and dress |
ISBN | : |
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Nearly two hundred portraits and hundreds of drawings highlight a study of styles of clothing worn by men, women, and children in colonial and Revolutionary America.
Author | : Dorothea Condry-Paulk |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2010-07-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1450058655 |
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The twenty-six short stories in the American-Dress book collection explore war, conflict, romance, ethnic cultures and social situations. Most rose spontaneously to consciousness and were written in a few hours for my own enjoyment. I hope the same for readers. The decision to share them wasn't easily made, for their variety provides no common theme to commend them. As I spent more serious time on one story in the collection: "The American Dress," eventually making it a novella, the name for the collection became more obvious to me. Moreover, my brother Bernard, served in Saigon during this period. A nephew, who also served during an earlier period, provided the interview which helped me understand more of that culture.
Author | : Michael Zakim |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0226977951 |
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Ready-Made Democracy explores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of American life during the century between the Revolution and the Civil War. Michael Zakim demonstrates how clothing initially attained a significant place in the American political imagination on the eve of Independence. At a time when household production was a popular expression of civic virtue, homespun clothing was widely regarded as a reflection of America's most cherished republican values: simplicity, industriousness, frugality, and independence. By the early nineteenth century, homespun began to disappear from the American material landscape. Exhortations of industry and modesty, however, remained a common fixture of public life. In fact, they found expression in the form of the business suit. Here, Zakim traces the evolution of homespun clothing into its ostensible opposite—the woolen coats, vests, and pantaloons that were "ready-made" for sale and wear across the country. In doing so, he demonstrates how traditional notions of work and property actually helped give birth to the modern industrial order. For Zakim, the history of men's dress in America mirrored this transformation of the nation's social and material landscape: profit-seeking in newly expanded markets, organizing a waged labor system in the city, shopping at "single-prices," and standardizing a business persona. In illuminating the critical links between politics, economics, and fashion in antebellum America, Ready-Made Democracy will prove essential to anyone interested in the history of the United States and in the creation of modern culture in general.
Author | : Merideth Wright |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0486273202 |
Download Everyday Dress of Rural America, 1783-1800 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Comprehensive study of late-18th-century clothing worn by settlers and Abenaki Indians of New England. Full descriptions and line drawings with complete instructions for duplicating a wide range of garments: shifts, petticoats, gowns, breeches, waistcoats, headgear, more. Four bibliographies. List of resources. 54 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : Patricia Anne Cunningham |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : |
Download Dress in American Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Clothing is viewed as a mediating factor in the American experience. The authors of these essays reveal the politics, or power of dress, especially in its function as a symbol of American ideals, and examine changes in clothing behavior which occurred as Americans faced a variety of new experiences.
Author | : Hilary Davidson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0300218729 |
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This beautifully illustrated book explores the rich complexity of Regency clothing through the lens of the collected writings of Jane Austen.
Author | : Richard A. Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Etiquette |
ISBN | : |
Download Manners, Culture and Dress of the Best American Society, Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Thompson Ford |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2022-01-18 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 1501180088 |
Download Dress Codes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A law professor and cultural critic offers an eye-opening exploration of the laws of fashion throughout history, from the middle ages to the present day, examining the canons, mores and customs of clothing rules that we often take for granted