ReDressing American Fashion by Emma Mcclendon PAPERBACK 9780300279160

Yale University Press

(Re)Dressing American FashionWear as Witness\nAuthor(s): Emma McClendon, Lauren Downing Peters\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Yale University Press, United States\nImprint: Yale University Press\nISBN-13: 9780300279160, 978-0300279160\nSynopsis\nA revelatory new approach to understanding fashion in America that focuses on the stories told by worn, imperfect, and ordinary clothes\n Expanding the history of American fashion, this volume highlights garments that carry material traces of everyday wearers bodies, such as stains, rips, tears, mending, and signs of hand-craftsmanship. In-depth examinations of ten case-study objectsranging from activist Jae Jarrells Urban Wall Suit (ca. 1969) to an unknown childs pair of sneakers found at a migrant pickup site in the Sonoran Desert [tel]reveal the ways worn objects are witnesses to American history.\n\n By foregrounding worn, ordinary, and imperfect garments, the essays in this volume respond to the fact that histories of American fashion ha)