"Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era" presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial America, including the social and historical background of British America, and covering men's, women's, and children's garments. The book shows how dress reflected and evolved with life in British colonial America as primitive settlements gave way to the growth of towns, cities, and manufacturing of the pre-Industrial Revolution.
Readers will discover that just as in the present day, what people wore in colonial times represented an...
"Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era" presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial ...