Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-257) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction : collecting costumes at Colonial Williamsburg --ch. 1.Costume : old and new connoisseurship --ch. 2. Themyths and meanings of clothing --ch. 3.Homespun and silk : American clothing --ch. 4.Common dress : clothing for daily life --ch. 5.Cradle to coffin : life passages reflected in clothing --ch. 6.Tailoring meaning : alterations in eighteenth-century clothing --Conclusion : listening to clothes.