The politics of fashion in eighteenth-century America /
Haulman, Kate.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
[2011]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : that strange, ridic'lous vice -- The many faces of fashion in the early eighteenth century -- Fops and coquettes : gender, sexuality, and status -- Country modes : cultural politics and political resistance -- New duties and old desires on the eve of revolution -- A contest of modes in revolutionary Philadelphia -- Fashion and nation -- Epilogue : political habits and citizenship's corset : the 1790s and beyond.
Politics and culture
Fashion
Clothing and dress
Symbolism in politics
Nationalism