The Sunbonnet: An American Icon in Texas

by Rebecca Jumper Matheson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896726657
• ISBN13: 9780896726659
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.0"