Suitable : The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapin, Chloe.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's clothing been so plain since the American Revolution? In Suitable, American historian and costume designer Chloe Chapin offers a deeply researched and groundbreaking explanation for why American men's fashion was standardized from the time of the nation's founding and how it became an invisible form of social and political power.

Contents:

Cover

Suitable : The Sartorial Revolution and the Fashioning of Modern Men

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface : Deciding What Is Suitable

Colour Plate

Introduction : A Brotherhood of Men

1 : Peacocks to Penguins

Aristocratic Peacocks

Revolutionary Fashions

Peacocks vs. Penguins

Plain and Fanciful in America

American History, American Mythology

2 : Made in America

A Revolution in Cloth

The Color(s) of Blackness

The Labor of Whiteness

The Technology of Cotton

Inconspicuous Consumption

3 : The Engineering of Men

The Measure of a Man

Hidden Padding, Invisible Vulnerability

The Ideal Man

4 : Suits in the Streets

Objects of Notice

Striving

Passing

Transgression

Codification

5 : The Suit and the State

The Colors of Liberty

Inventing the American Character Abroad

Dress and Diplomacy

The Simple Dress of an American Citizen

Manifest Destiny

Conclusion : What the Suit Hath Wrought

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-784249-6

0-19-784250-X

OCLC:

1574527087