The sunbonnet
Subtitle: an American icon in Texas
By: Rebecca Jumper Matheson.
Series: Costume Society of America series; Costume Society of America series
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780896726659
Subjects: Women's hats -- Texas -- History
Description: "This first book-length history of the American sunbonnet, which persisted as folk dress late into the twentieth century, discusses what the sunbonnet reveals about American fashion, culture, ideals, and class- and race-related issues. Details sunbonnet construction, care, and design differences; includes oral histories and a variety of visual primary sources"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Fashionable millinery related to the sunbonnet; title: The nineteenth-century sunbonnet; title: Twentieth-century transition; title: Components of the sunbonnet; title: Dress sunbonnets; title: Context of twentieth-century work sunbonnets; title: Why a sunbonnet? Narrators' reasons; title: The sunbonnet and white skin; title: Decline (and revival?) of the sunbonnet; title: The oral histories; title: Afterword: Sunbonnet collection care; title: Appendix: Patterns.