num_pages: 424
description: Authors Ann Buermann Wass and Michelle Webb Fandrich provide information on fabrics materials and manufacturing; a discussion of levels of society daily life and dress; and the types of clothes worn by men women and children including American Indians and enslaved people. The authors have painstakingly researched such primary sources as diaries letters and wills of the people of the time in addition to secondary resources. Just a few of the topics  The constant problems of getting fabrics such as wool or cotton in the late eighteenth centuries  The types of clothes that slave men women and children were allowed to wear  The beginnings of patterns and the mass production of clothing in the mid nineteenth century. The volume features numerous illustrations helpful timelines resource guides recommending websites videos and print publications and extensive glossaries.
language: English
title: Clothing through American History: The Federal Era through Antebellum, 1786–1860
publisher: Greenwood