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Author Bix, Cynthia Overbeck.

Title Petticoats and frock coats : revolution and Victorian Age fashions from the 1770s to the 1860s / Cynthia Overbeck Bix.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, [2012]
©2012

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 Bristol, Main Library - Young Adult Materials in Adult Department  YA391 B55    Check Shelf
Description 64 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series Dressing a nation: the history of U.S. fashion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 57-61) and index.
Contents New nation, new clothes -- Fashionable ladies -- Fine gentlemen -- Who made the clothes? -- Hidden and for show -- Style setters -- Epilogue.
Summary Photographs and text examine the fashion trends of the American people from the 1770s to the 1860s, describing the materials used to make men's and women's clothing and the styles that were commonly worn.
Subject Clothing and dress -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Dress accessories -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Fashion -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
National characteristics, American -- History.
ISBN 9780761358886 library binding alkaline paper
0761358889 library binding alkaline paper
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