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Product Description: Book by Starke, Barbara M., Holloman, Lillian O., Nordquist, Barbara K.

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9780840359025 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, May 1, 1990, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Book by Starke, Barbara M.

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A chronological survey of American children's fashion describes trends and traces influences on the design of costume for infants, boys and girls, and teenagers

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9780684166452 | Scribner, December 1, 1980, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A chronological survey of American children's fashion describes trends and traces influences on the design of costume for infants, boys and girls, and teenagers

Hardcover:

9781936313044 | 1 edition (Nomad Pr, September 1, 2010), cover price $16.95

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9781936313006 | Nomad Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $6.95

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Product Description: From the breathtaking body decorations of native Americans to the oppressive austerity of their Puritan contemporaries' clothing, from the propriety of Victorian garb to free-and-easy Flapper elegance and the body-beautiful 1980s, this book looks at subjects such as the impact of Levi's riveted denim jeans, the drives for dress reform and the role of clothing in establishing and maintaining distinctions of class, race, age and gender...read more

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9780821219003 | Bulfinch Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: From the breathtaking body decorations of native Americans to the oppressive austerity of their Puritan contemporaries' clothing, from the propriety of Victorian garb to free-and-easy Flapper elegance and the body-beautiful 1980s, this book looks at subjects such as the impact of Levi's riveted denim jeans, the drives for dress reform and the role of clothing in establishing and maintaining distinctions of class, race, age and gender.

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Product Description: From the FOREWORD. The material for the compilation of this glossary has been found in old letters, wills, inventories of estates, court records, and in eighteenth-century newspapers, hundreds of which have been carefully examined and noted...read more

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9781110386987 | Bibliolife, May 31, 2009, cover price $30.99 | also contains Costume of Colonial Times | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781558889460 | Omnigraphics Inc, December 1, 1975, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
9780810339651 | Gale Group, June 1, 1975, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

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9781503165175 | Createspace Independent Pub, November 9, 2014, cover price $11.99 | also contains Costume of Colonial Times | About this edition: From the FOREWORD.
9781110386949 | Bibliolife, May 31, 2009, cover price $27.75 | also contains Costume of Colonial Times | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781425499976 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 30, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: Vintage clothing is a part of our style history, is an acceptable way to individualize the way we dress, and is an increasingly popular way to "go green." This reference book is an easy-to-use compilation of information for dating menswear garments using label information, textiles, styles, and other available information...read more

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9780764338908 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, December 28, 2011, cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Vintage clothing is a part of our style history, is an acceptable way to individualize the way we dress, and is an increasingly popular way to "go green.

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Product Description: Rich with illustrations, this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture. Presented here is an up-to-date analysis of images of power and authority, gender, seduction (the sexy look, the alluring look, the glamorous look, the vulnerable look), wealth and beauty, youth and health, and leisure and political hierarchy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780813322827 | Westview Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: Rich with illustrations, Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture.

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9780813367958 | 2 edition (Westview Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Rich with illustrations, this revised and updated second edition of Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture.
9780813322834 | Westview Pr, January 12, 1995, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Rich with illustrations, Dress Codes systematically analyzes the meaning and relevance of clothing in American culture.

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Product Description:      Early Americans accommodated, adapted, and manipulated their clothing to adjust to their physical and social environment. This book focuses on the relationship of dress to the struggle of indigenous and immigrant Americans to fill expected and unexpected needs and express political ideologies and ethnic identity...read more

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9780879725792 | Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, December 31, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition:      Early Americans accommodated, adapted, and manipulated their clothing to adjust to their physical and social environment.

Offers a comprehensive illustrated account of the development of American dress from the arrival of the European explorers and settlers to the present

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9780841911994 | Holmes & Meier Pub, February 1, 1991, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Offers a comprehensive illustrated account of the development of American dress from the arrival of the European explorers and settlers to the present

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Surveys American fashions from 1580 to 1850 and the geographical, political, economic, religious, and social determinants of style

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9780811705394 | Stackpole Books, November 1, 1975, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Surveys American fashions from 1580 to 1850 and the geographical, political, economic, religious, and social determinants of style

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9780874741339 | 6 sub edition (Smithsonian Inst Pr, April 1, 1978), cover price $3.50

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Product Description: This profusely illustrated study focuses on more than 500 years of clothing styles worn by people of the Americas — from animal hides in the 9th century to suits for both sexes in the mid-20th century. A brief, introductory chapter describes and depicts the everyday wear of Vikings, Mayans, Aztecs, Incas, and principal North American Indian tribes...read more

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9780684151618 | Scribner, June 1, 1977, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: American dress from the early Indian tribes and explorers to the space suits of the astronauts

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9780486436104 | Dover Pubns, July 23, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This profusely illustrated study focuses on more than 500 years of clothing styles worn by people of the Americas — from animal hides in the 9th century to suits for both sexes in the mid-20th century.
9780684157771 | Encore Editions, September 1, 1976, cover price $1.95 | About this edition: This profusely illustrated study focuses on more than 500 years of clothing styles worn by people of the Americas — from animal hides in the 9th century to suits for both sexes in the mid-20th century.

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Product Description: This book covers the clothing, accessories, and fashions of the American Civil War (1861-1865). This title explains how fashions of the mid-nineteenth century reflected U.S. society of that era and includes information on slave and military dress.

Miscellaneous:

9780761380542 | Twenty First Century Books, August 1, 2011, cover price $23.95

Library:

9780761358893 | Twenty First Century Books, October 1, 2011, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: This book covers the clothing, accessories, and fashions of the American Civil War (1861-1865).

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Product Description: First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata...read more

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9780415552868 | Routledge, September 9, 2009, cover price $195.00
9780047460166 | Unwin Hyman, August 1, 1983, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the middle ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata.

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9780415556545 | Reprint edition (Routledge, August 13, 2010), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: First published in 1983, Mourning Dress chronicles the development of European and American mourning dress and etiquette from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting similarities and differences in practices between the different social strata.

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Product Description: There has been an endeavor made to attribute this dress to the stimulus, to the influence, of Puritan feeling. Possibly some of the reaction against the absurdities of Elizabeth and James may have helped in the establishment of this costume; but I think the excellent taste of Charles and especially of his queen, Henrietta Maria, who succeeded in making women's dress wholly beautiful, may be thanked largely for it...read more

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9781406516029, titled "Two Centuries of Costume in America 1620-1820" | Ill edition (Dodo Pr, January 31, 2007), cover price $26.99 | About this edition: Historical work on Colonial America from the American historian marked for her focus on small sociological details, invaluable for modern sociologists.
9781428628380, titled "Two Centuries of Costume in America 1620-1820" | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2006, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9781428628397, titled "Two Centuries of Costume in America 1620-1820" | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2006, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780804809696, titled "Two Centuries of Costume in America, 1620-1820." | Box edition (Tuttle Pub, January 1, 1972), cover price $5.50
9780486225517 | Dover Pubns, April 1, 1970, cover price $3.75 | About this edition: A detailed discussion of the attire of men, women, and children during the first two hundred years of the American experience
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