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Buckskin dresses and pumpkin breeches : colonial fashions from the 1580s to 1760s / Kate Havelin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Havelin, Kate, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Dressing a nation.
- Dressing a nation : the history of U.S. fashion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--United States--History.
- Clothing and dress.
- Dress accessories--United States--History.
- Dress accessories.
- Indians of North America--Clothing.
- Indians of North America.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What would you have worn if you lived during the Colonial era? It depends on who you were! For example, many Native American women made skirts or dresses out of deerskin, and they completed the look with jewelry crafted from metal, shells, stones, pearls, or animal bones. But in European settlements, women of fashion dressed in many layers. One of the first layers was a staya corset-like garment made of whalebone that tied or laced around the chest. On top of that, they put on a bodice, a waistcoat or a jacket, and several heavy petticoats. Read more about Colonial fashionsfrom wigs to beaver-pelt hats and linen capsin this fascinating book!
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (page 59) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-22968-4
- 9786613229687
- 0-7613-8051-5
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