Historic American Costumes and How to Make Them
Author:   Mary Evans ,  Elizabeth Brooks
Publisher:   Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN:  

9780486475967


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   31 December 2010
Format:   Paperback
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This easy-to-use handbook presents step-by-step instructions and patterns for a tremendous variety of clothes and accessories from colonial times through the Civil War. More than eighty illustrations depict Puritan, Dutch, Quaker, and Native American garb as well as military uniforms. A bonus CD features every pattern in vector files. Drawing upon authentic materials in the collections of major museums, including the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the author presents accurate renditions of generations of American formal and leisure wear. Costumers of all kinds will find this book a source of inexpensive apparel for amateur theater troupes, school pageants, and casual reenactments. It will also prove an inspiration to parents and children seeking informal costumes for Halloween and other occasions.

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Author:   Mary Evans ,  Elizabeth Brooks
Publisher:   Dover Publications Inc.
Imprint:   Dover Publications Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.351kg
ISBN:  

9780486475967


ISBN 10:   0486475964
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   31 December 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Preface Costumes of the American Indians Indians of the Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Plains Indians of the Southwest Costumes of the Eskimos Costumes of the Eskimos Costumes of the Colonists The Virginians The Carolinians The Puritans The Dutch The Quakers American Dress in the Eighteenth Century Pre-Revolutionary Costumes Revolutionary War Uniforms American Dress, 1800-1870 1800-1810 1820-1840 1840-1850 1850-1870 Civil War Uniforms Appendix Materials Dyeing Construction Bibliography Index

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