What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America

by Linda Baumgarten

Book Overview

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 collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Illustrated with more than 300 color photographs, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181078
• ISBN13: 9780300181074
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 12.0"