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Students and enthusiasts of period costume as well as needleworkers interested in re-creating authentic costumes of America's post-Revolutionary era will welcome this comprehensive, scholarly treatment. It not only discusses and describes the clothing worn in rural America (primarily in New England) between 1783 and 1800, it is one of the few books to include scaled drawings of patterns and full instructions for making most of the garments. The attire includes the clothing both of settlers and of the Abenaki Indians of New England. The Abenaki traditionally wore clothing made of soft tanned deerskin or moosehide, sometimes decorated with dyes or with complex embroidery of dyed porcupine quills and moose hair. By the late eighteenth century, however, the Abenaki had adopted certain of the settlers' garments, such as the men's shirt and the women's shift. Similarly, the settlers had begun to wear moccasins, leggings, and other Indian garments when it made sense in their daily lives. The heart of this book is devoted to full descriptions and scaled patterns for specific garments. For shift, petticoat and skirt, gowns, neckerchief, apron, headgear, and more. Men's clothes include shirt

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Author

Merideth Wright

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486273204

Category

performing arts

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14