The sunbonnet : an American icon in Texas / Rebecca Jumper Matheson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matheson, Rebecca Jumper, 1975-

Series:

Costume Society of America series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's hats--Texas--History.

Women's hats.

History.

Texas.

Physical Description:

xiv, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2009]

Summary:

"This first book-length history of the American sunbonnet, which persisted as folk dress late into the twentieth century, discusses what the sunbonnet reveals about American fashion, culture, ideals, and class- and race-related issues. Details sunbonnet construction, care, and design differences; includes oral histories and a variety of visual primary sources"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Fashionable Millinery Related to the Sunbonnet 19

2 The Nineteenth-Century Sunbonnet 29

3 Twentieth-Century Transition 43

4 Components of the Sunbonnet 52

5 Dress Sunbonnets 78

6 Context of Twentieth-Century Work Sunbonnets 83

7 Why a Sunbonnet? Narrators' Reasons 104

8 The Sunbonnet and White Skin 110

9 Decline (and Revival?) of the Sunbonnet 129

10 The Oral Histories 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780896726659

0896726657

OCLC:

326487040