Description: EARLY AMERICAN DRESSThe Colonial and Revolutionary Periods I. The European background; II. Virgina: 1607-1675; III. The New England Background: 1620-1675; IV. The Dutch In New York: 1623-1675; V. Growth and Change in the Colonies: 1675-1775; VI. Pennsylvania (and the Quakers); VII. The Revolution and the New Republic; VIII. Children in North America: 1585-1790; IX. Frontier Life. Seeks the roots and sources of American clothing from the first settlements to the end of the Revolutionary period, and in creating this picture of the ordinary dress of the people tells the story of those people and their time. If dress mirrors life, works of art mirror dress. Hence considerable emphasis on contemporary paintings, drawings, and other pictorial sources. 200 American portraits reproduced showing important details. Here is one of the largest single sources of contemporary evidence on the style and make-up of dress in this era. Half-tone plates of paintings are supplemented by hundreds of precise drawings in the text. Henry Pitz, one of America's master illustrators, has added eight double-spread drawings depicting men, women, and children, of all walks of life in the performance of daily occupations, sketched against authentic backgrounds. Also, architectural drawings further illustrated this background by showing representative buildings of the period and regions discussed.Hardcover, 7" x 10", 428pages, addendum sheet.
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