What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America : The Colonial Williamsburg Collection (Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series)

By Linda Baumgarten

Book Overview

Paintings of upper-class men and women tell an important part of the history of costumes, but surviving garments themselves reveal even more. Every crease, stitch, and stain in a piece of clothing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879352167
• ISBN13: 9780879352165
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 4.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.3" x 1.0" x 9.8"