The Sunbonnet - An American Icon in Texas

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Jumper Matheson has pursued her interest in fashion/dress/costume in environments ranging from museums to the performing arts. A former research assistant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she was co-curator of the Museum at FIT exhibition Designing the It Girl: Lucile and Her Style and is the author of "'A House That Is Made of Hats' The Lilly Daché Building, 1937-1968" in The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 (2008). Klappentext 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. This study focuses on why this particular working-dress accessory persisted long after it passed out of nineteenth-century fashion. Zusammenfassung 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. This study focuses on why this particular working-dress accessory persisted long after it passed out of nineteenth-century fashion.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Jumper Matheson
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780896726659
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-665-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Costume Society of America; Costume Society of America
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Handicrafts, textiles; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design