American style and spirit
Subtitle: fashions and lives of the Roddis family, 1850-1995
By: Jane Bradbury, Edward Maeder ; photography by Gillian Bostock Ewing and Doug Mindell
Contributors: Maeder, Edward, author; Ewing, Gillian Bostock, photographer; Mindell, Doug, photographer; Henry Ford (Organization)
Edition: Hardback edition.
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781851778898
Subjects: Fashion; Clothing and dress; Exhibitions; Private collections; History
Description: "Brought to life for the first time outside the attic in which they were stored for generations, here are more than 300 garments and accessories, beautifully preserved and complemented by archival objects, family photographs, and letters, as well as evocative descriptions of whom the garments belonged to, when they were made or bought, and even where they were worn, all by members of the Roddis family of Marshfield, Wisconsin. Author Jane Bradbury describes the joy of discovering the clothes when her aunt, Augusta Denton Roddis, showed her the astonishing collection. A remarkable resource, the book presents the garments and their designers in the context of the various eras in which they were created, from the turn of the 20th century through the 1920s and the Depression to the mid-1990s"--Publisher's description.
Notes: "This book is published to accompany the exhibition "American Style and Spirit: 130 Years of Fashions and Lives of an Entrepreneurial Family," to be held at Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A., from Nov 5, 2016 to Apr 2, 2017."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-312) and index.