Life and fashion in America 16501900 Author:Paul McPharlin From the flyleaf: — "LIFE AND FASHION IN AMERICA 1650--1900 — America in its pioneer days was not fashionable, but if clothes make the man, and men have built the country, clothes have played their part in shaping America, as Paul McPharlin points out in a series of gay six-color drawings and the descriptions he has written for them. From the Bos... more »ton Tea Party to the coming of the automobile, from the hoopskirt to the leg-of-mutton sleeve, he shows both the serious and amusing aspects of life and rainment. Something of furniture, houses, and towns is mentioned to indicate the background of American life for two and a half centuries."« less