Title: Common threads : a parade of American clothing /
Authors: Hall, Lee.
Publisher: Little, Brown,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Costume United States History.
Contents: pt. I. c. 1492-1800. 1. In the Beginning ... 2. The Seventeenth Century: Mixing Cultures. 3. Birth of a Country: The Eighteenth Century -- pt. II. The Nineteenth Century. 4. Overview: 1800-1899. 5. Manufacturing and the Work Force: Industrialization and Clothing. 6. Communication and the Cult of Womanhood. 7. The Sewing Machine and the Paper-Pattern Empires. 8. Dress Reform. 9. Masters and Slaves: Southern Hierarchy and Clothing. 10. Western Frontier. 11. Levi's. 12. Conspicuous Consumption and Self-Consciousness -- pt. III. The Twentieth Century. 13. Overview: The Twentieth Century. 14. Clothing for the Ages. 15. The Roaring Twenties: Dress Reform Redux. 16. Sports. 17. Gender and Clothing: Identity, Self, and Society. 18. College Styles. 19. Consumerism and Communication. 20. Diversity and Uniformity. 21. Superstar's: The New Aristocracy.