Introduction: Refashioning America / Michelle Tolini Finamore -- Indigenous Fashion: Every Garment Has a Story / Amber-Dawn Bear Robe -- They Have Names: Stories of Erasure / Michelle Tolini Finamore -- Woven into the American Fabric: Black Craftspeople and the Clothing Trades in Pre-Civil War Charleston / Tiffany Momon and Torren Gatson -- Fashion as History/History as Fashion: Phoebe and Pyer Moss / Elizabeth Way -- Westernwear: Complicating American Icons / Sonya Abrego -- Paris Fashions Americanized: The Development of American Style / Michelle Tolini Finamore -- Shaping the Standard Body : Sizing in American Fashion / Emma McClendon and Lauren Downing Peters -- Refashioning the World: Whiteness, Racial Plagiarism, and Diversifying the Future / Xuxa Rodríguez -- Hidden in the Seams : A Family Account of Dominican Immigration to Massachusetts / Angely Mercado
Summary
"The companion volume to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's first fashion exhibition, Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour celebrates the history of American attire, from the cowboy boot to the zoot suit"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2022)
