Dressing New England
Subtitle: clothing, fashion, and identity
By: editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes
Series: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife annual proceedings -- v. 35, 2010; Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife) -- 2010
Publisher: Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Deerfield, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780966676983
Subjects: Clothing and dress; Costume; African Americans; Clothing; Indians of North America; Fashion designers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Section 1.; title: Identity and Dress --; title: Identity, communication, and the role of diplomacy in Wabanaki dress  -- Laureen LaBar; title: Supporting role : the hoop skirt in 1860s Western-Massachusetts fashion  -- David E. Lazaro; title: The life and death of the American Grenadier : military headgear and national character in the age of Revolution  -- Matthew Keagle -- Section 2.; title: Dressmaking and dressmakers --; title: "Clothes that is fit to wear" : fashion, wage work, and community among female textile workers in New England, 1825-1865  -- Linzy Brekke-Aloise; title: Mehitable Primus and Addie Brown : women of color and Hartford's nineteenth-century dressmaking trades  -- Marla R. Miller -- Section 3.; title: Fashion and retailing in the nineteenth century --; title: Federal New England fashion in the diary of Sylvia Lewis  -- Alden O'Brien; title: Boston in Paris : the fashions of Annie Bigelow Lawrence Rotch, 1850-1854  -- Lauren D. Whitley -- Section 4.; title: Fashion and retailing in the twentieth century --; title: Folly Cove designers : a time and place  -- Elena M. Sarni; title: "Uniform for intellectuals" : Marimekko, design research, and modernism in mid-twentieth-century Cambridge, Massachusetts  -- Susan Ward; title: Emily Wilkens : Connecticut-born designer for All-American teens  -- Rebecca Jumper Matheson -- Section 5.; title: Remaking and reusing clothing --; title: "Prized the more by me for having once been yours" : gifts of clothing in nineteenth-century New England  -- Mary Beth Sievens; title: "I wish I could help you turn, and press, and re-fit" : the clothing of missionary daughters in mid-nineteenth-century New England  -- Elizabeth C. Stevens and Jessie MacLeod; title: Bibliography of selected works on New England, American, English, and French costume and clothing history, 1600-1975 -- Lynne Zacek Bassett and Marla R. Miller.