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The Sunbonnet. An American Icon in Texas.
Rebecca Jumper Matheson
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Description for The Sunbonnet. An American Icon in Texas.
Paperback. Pervasive and fashionable throughout westward expansion in the United States, the sunbonnet endures as work dress in some regions and as icon just about everywhere - on quilts, dolls, and children's clothing. This study focuses on why this particular working-dress accessory persisted long after it passed out of nineteenth-century fashion. Num Pages: 240 pages, 24 b&w & 30 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFCD; WFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
From fashion to field, its twentieth-century story. Pervasive and fashionable throughout westward expansion in the United States, the sunbonnet endures as work dress in some regions and as icon just about everywhere - on quilts, dolls, and children's clothing. In 2003, Rebecca Matheson began to ask why. Unlike the scant previously published work, this first book-length study focuses on the twentieth century and why this particular working-dress accessory persisted long after it passed out of nineteenth-century fashion. Surveying its previous history, Matheson pursues what the sunbonnet reveals about twentieth-century American fashion, culture, and ideals, as well as class- and race-related ... Read more
From fashion to field, its twentieth-century story. Pervasive and fashionable throughout westward expansion in the United States, the sunbonnet endures as work dress in some regions and as icon just about everywhere - on quilts, dolls, and children's clothing. In 2003, Rebecca Matheson began to ask why. Unlike the scant previously published work, this first book-length study focuses on the twentieth century and why this particular working-dress accessory persisted long after it passed out of nineteenth-century fashion. Surveying its previous history, Matheson pursues what the sunbonnet reveals about twentieth-century American fashion, culture, and ideals, as well as class- and race-related ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726659
SKU
V9780896726659
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Reviews for The Sunbonnet. An American Icon in Texas.
A pleasure to read... fills in another missing piece in the puzzle that remains women's collective past. - LAURIE WINN CARLSON, author of Seduced by the West FROM THE ORAL HISTORIES When I was born and raised, in the country, we were outside a whole lot. And my mother had beautiful skin, and she said, You're going to ruin your ... Read more