Dress in American Culture (Paperback, illustrated Edition)

Early Americans accommodated, adapted, and manipulated their clothing to adjust to their physical and social environment. This book focuses on the relationship of dress to the struggle of indigenous and immigrant Americans to fill expected and unexpected needs and express political ideologies and ethnic identity. In doing so the contributors hope to prompt readers to reconsider the place of dress in the interpretation of American culture. The casual reader of this book of essays may be surprised to learn that it has little to do with different styles of clothing or the vagaries of fashion.
The contributors reveal the politics, or power, of dress, especially in its function as a symbol of American ideals, and examine changes in clothing behavior that occurred as Americans faced new experiences.

General

Imprint:	Bowling Green University Popular Press,US
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1993
First published:	May 2009
Authors:	Patricia Anne Cunningham • Susan Voso Lab
Dimensions:	229 x 159 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	221
Edition:	illustrated Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-87972-579-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-87972-579-6
Barcode:	9780879725792

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