Dress in American Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780879725792)

Early Americans accommodated, adapted, and manipulated their clothing to adjust to their physical and social environment. This book focuses on the relationship of dress to the struggle of indigenous and immigrant Americans to fill expected and unexpected needs and express political ideologies and ethnic identity. In doing so the contributors hope to prompt readers to reconsider the place of dress in the interpretation of American culture. The casual reader of this book of essays may be surprised to learn that it has little to do with different styles of clothing or the vagaries of fashion.
The contributors reveal the politics, or power, of dress, especially in its function as a symbol of American ideals, and examine changes in clothing behavior that occurred as Americans faced new experiences.

Author: Patricia a. Cunningham
ISBN-10: 0879725796
ISBN-13: 9780879725792
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 12/31/1993
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d