Dressing New England : Clothing, Fashion, and Identity / editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes

Contents: Section 1. Identity and Dress -- Identity, communication, and the role of diplomacy in Wabanaki dress / Laureen LaBar -- Supporting role : the hoop skirt in 1860s Western-Massachusetts fashion / David E. Lazaro -- The life and death of the American Grenadier : military headgear and national character in the age of Revolution / Matthew Keagle -- Section 2. Dressmaking and dressmakers -- "Clothes that is fit to wear" : fashion, wage work, and community among female textile workers in New England, 1825-1865 / Linzy Brekke-Aloise -- Mehitable Primus and Addie Brown : women of color and Hartford's nineteenth-century dressmaking trades / Marla R. Miller -- Section 3. Fashion and retailing in the nineteenth century -- Federal New England fashion in the diary of Sylvia Lewis / Alden O'Brien -- Boston in Paris : the fashions of Annie Bigelow Lawrence Rotch, 1850-1854 / Lauren D. Whitley -- Section 4. Fashion and retailing in the twentieth century -- Folly Cove designers : a time and place / Elena M. Sarni -- "Uniform for intellectuals" : Marimekko, design research, and modernism in mid-twentieth-century Cambridge, Massachusetts / Susan Ward -- Emily Wilkens : Connecticut-born designer for All-American teens / Rebecca Jumper Matheson -- Section 5. Remaking and reusing clothing -- "Prized the more by me for having once been yours" : gifts of clothing in nineteenth-century New England / Mary Beth Sievens -- "I wish I could help you turn, and press, and re-fit" : the clothing of missionary daughters in mid-nineteenth-century New England / Elizabeth C. Stevens and Jessie MacLeod -- Bibliography of selected works on New England, American, English, and French costume and clothing history, 1600-1975 / Lynne Zacek Bassett and Marla R. Miller

Deerfield, MA : Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, [2014]

2014

189 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references