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What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
What Clothes Reveal The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
Author: Linda Baumgarten
Paintings of upper-class men and women tell an important part of the history of costumes, but surviving garments themselves reveal even more. Every crease, stitch, and stain in a piece of clothing supplies information about its wearer and its era. This stunning book features eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century garments from the premiere col...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300095807
ISBN-10: 0300095805
Publication Date: 11/1/2002
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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