What Clothes Reveal
Subtitle: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: November 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780300095807
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Costume; Social history; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Dress And Costume; U.S. History - Colonial Period (1607-1775); History; Art & Art Instruction; Sociology; USA; American - General; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; Fashion; Art / History / American; Customs & Traditions; United States - Colonial Period; Clothing and dress; Social aspects; Social conditions; Social life and customs; To 1775; To 1865; United States
First sentence: The very first garment purchased by Colonial Williamsburg in 1930, an antique dress made of crisp silk, came from the collection of a Richmond, Virginia, woman (fig. 4).