Dress Up America

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Daniel Delis Hill
Dress and Identity in America: The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964 (Dress and Fashion Research)
Dress and Identity in America is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950s—a backlash to the wartime tumult, privations, and social upheavals of the Second World War. The study looks at how American men sought to recaptu...
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Daniel Delis Hill
Dress and Identity in America: The Baby Boom Years 1946-1964 (Dress and Fashion Research)
Dress and Identity in America is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950s-a backlash to the wartime tumult, privations, and social upheavals of the Second World War. The study looks at how American men sought to recapture...
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Amy Anderson
America Is Back: An Adult Coloring Book
America Is Back is the ultimate anti-woke adult coloring book — bold, hilarious, and unapologetically politically incorrect. This isn’t your average relaxing coloring book — this is political therapy in black and white. Packed with 30 original black-and-white designs, this Pro-Trump coloring...
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John Phillips
Dress Whites
A powerful collection of short stories that shines a light on a tumultuous time in America’s history that forever changed our nation. A freshly made Marine Corps officer, with his new bride in tow, visits his family one last time before shipping out to Vietnam. A group of wayward souls living in...
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Phyllis G. Tortora
Dress, Fashion and Technology: From Prehistory to the Present (Dress, Body, Culture)
Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the first broad study of the complex relationship between dress and technology. Over the course of human his...
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John D. MacDonald
Dress Her in Indigo: A Travis McGee Novel
From a beloved master of crime fiction, Dress Her in Indigo is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even says please, McGee agrees to accompany him to Me...
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Robert B Wallace Jr
Dress Her in White and Gold: a Biography of Georgia Tech
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work...
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Lagretta Metzger Bajorek
America's Early Advertising Paper Dolls (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Colorful paper dolls that sold everything from coffee to cathartics, from tea to thread, from cocoa to corsets. These dolls were the playthings of generations of children from the 1890s to the First World War. These wonderful examples of advertising art include fanciful characters from the imaginati...
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Michael Zakim
Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860
Ready-Made Democracy explores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of social life during the century between the Revolution and the Civil War. The story begins with the elevation of homespun clothing to a political ideology on the eve ...
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Connie Lou Shoemaker
Taste the Sweetness Later: Two Muslim Women in America
Taste the Sweetness Later:Two Muslim Women in America was informed by more than 200 hours of personal interviews, Author Connie Shoemaker shares the stories of two women living in the grip of murderous dictators. Nisren, a Kurdish Iraqi whose childhood is plagued by Saddam Hussein’s “eyes that a...
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S. J. Perelman
S. J. Perelman: Writings (LOA #346) (The Library of America, 346)
Adam Gopnik presents the very best of S. J. Perelman, America's zaniest humorist. S. J. Perelman (1904-1979) wrote for the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers and Monkey Business and won an Oscar for his screenwriting on Around the World in Eighty Days , but he remains best known for his many ...
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Fanny Howe
The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life
In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and fruitful ways of thinking about both the artist's role and the condition of doubt. In these original me...
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Linda Baumgarten
What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America
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-ni...
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Regina A. Root
The Latin American Fashion Reader (Dress, Body, Culture)
Latin American fashion's recent gain in popularity can be seen most obviously in mass-market ranges throughout the industrialized West. From the tango-inspired dress of Argentina and guerrilla chic in downtown Buenos Aires to swimwear on Copacabana Beach and the rainbow that adorns Mayan women, Lati...
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Merideth Wright
Everyday Dress of Rural America, 1783-1800: With Instructions and Patterns (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
Students and enthusiasts of period costume as well as needleworkers interested in re-creating authentic costumes of America's post-Revolutionary era will welcome this comprehensive, scholarly treatment. It not only discusses and describes the clothing worn in rural America (primarily in New England)...
$12.95
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Jane Smith
Islam in America (Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series)
This richly textured, critically acclaimed portrait of American Muslims introduces the basic tenets of the Muslim faith, surveys the history of Islam in North America, and profiles the lifestyles, religious practices, and worldviews of Muslims in the United States. The volume focuses specifically on...
$22.47
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Michael G. Johnson
Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America
"A model of excellence in the art of reference volume publishing... Every public and school library... should acquire this treasure. It will remain the standard for many years to come." -- Dr. James A. Clifton, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University "This substantial reference rem...
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James D. Henderson
Ten Notable Women of Colonial Latin America
In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the ...
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Kendra Van Cleave
Dressing à la Turque: Ottoman Influence on French Fashion, 1670-1800 (Costume Society of America)
Exploring the significant influences of Turkish dress on French fashion While French fashion has historically set the bar across the Western world, the cultural influences that inspired it are often obscured. Dressing à la Turque examines the theatrical depictions of Ottoman costumes, or Turki...
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Kate Haulman
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (Gender and American Culture)
In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion — both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment — linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority...
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