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Clothing and Fashion in Southern History (Hardcover)
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Clothing and Fashion in Southern History (Hardcover)
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Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby,
Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and
Sarah Jones WeickselFashion studies have long centered on the art
and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class,
and archival resources used in the study of southern history have
gaps and silences. Yet, little study has been given to the approach
of clothing as something made, worn, and intimately experienced by
enslaved people, incarcerated people, and the poor and working
class, and by subcultures perceived as transgressive. The essays in
the volume, using clothing as a point of departure, encourage
readers to imagine the South's centuries-long engagement with a
global economy through garments, with cotton harvested by enslaved
or poorly paid workers, milled in distant factories, designed with
influence from cosmopolitan tastemakers, and sold back in the
South, often by immigrant merchants. Contributors explore such
topics as how free and enslaved women with few or no legal rights
claimed to own clothing in the mid-1800s, how white women in the
Confederacy claimed the making of clothing as a form of patriotism,
how imprisoned men and women made and imagined their clothing, and
clothing cooperatives in civil rights-era Mississippi. An
introduction by editors Ted Ownby and Becca Walton asks how best to
begin studying clothing and fashion in southern history, and an
afterword by Jonathan Prude asks how best to conclude.
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