[PDF] Womens Shoes In America 1795 1930 eBook

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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Design
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In an engaging narrative history, the beautifully illustrated Women's Shoes in America investigates an aspect of American material culture and provides a detailed reference for dating women's footwear.

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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2000
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In an engaging narrative history, the beautifully illustrated Women's Shoes in America investigates an aspect of American material culture and provides a detailed reference for dating women's footwear.

Author : Ann Buermann Wass
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2010-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0313084599

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Learn what men, women, and children have worn—and why—in American history, beginning with the classical styles worn in the early American republic through the hoop skirts and ready-made clothes worn before the Civil War. Authors Ann Buermann Wass and Michelle Webb Fandrich provide information on fabrics, materials, and manufacturing; a discussion of levels of society, daily life, and dress; and the types of clothes worn by men, women, and children, including American Indians and enslaved people. The authors have painstakingly researched such primary sources as diaries, letters, and wills of the people of the time, in addition to secondary resources. Just a few of the topics include: • The constant problems of getting fabrics, such as wool, or cotton, in the late eighteenth centuries • The types of clothes that slave men, women, and children were allowed to wear • The beginnings of patterns and the mass production of clothing in the mid nineteenth century. The volume features numerous illustrations, helpful timelines, resource guides recommending websites, videos, and print publications, and extensive glossaries.

Author : Denise Amy Baxter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1350114073

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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem more pressing. In this age of empire, the coding of class, gender and race was frequently negotiated through dress in complex ways, from fashionable dress which restricted or exaggerated the female body to liberating reform dress, from self-defining black dandies to the oppressions and resistances of slave dress. Richly illustrated with over 100 images and drawing on a plethora of visual, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.

Author : Francesca Sterlacci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 1442239093

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From the first animal skin body coverings, to today’s high fashion collections, fashion has held an important role in the evolution of mankind. The fashion industry has, and continues to make, major contributions to our cultural and social environment. It is an industry that responds to our inherent longing for tribal belonging, our socio-economic needs, individual lifestyles, status stratification and profession apparel requirements. The fashion industry is fast-paced, complex and ever changing, in response to consumer needs. Throughout the world, vast numbers of people contribute to this industry, each with the shared goal of supplying an end product of a particular price point directed at a target consumer. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,400 cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the fashion industry.