What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America : The Colonial Williamsburg Collection by Linda Baumgarten, Linda Baumgarten
What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America : The Colonial Williamsburg Collection
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Linda Baumgarten, Linda Baumgarten
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What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America : The Colonial Williamsburg Collection

Linda Baumgarten, Linda Baumgarten

275 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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. ...

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