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Social History Resources: Clothing |
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| Research Questions What were the prevailing styles of the day? Were shoes fancy or functional? Were clothes homemade or bought in a store? Who sewed the family's clothes? What types of stores might have sold clothes and shoes? What types of fabrics might their clothes have been made of? Was the fabric homemade or store bought? How were children's clothes different from adult clothes? Were accessories (i.e., hats, scarves, etc.) an important element of fashion? What length did women wear their dresses? What were the styles and colors women chose for their wedding dresses? |
Resources on the Web The Costume Gallery
- 1700s Costume Image Sites Civil War Fashions
from Bits of Blue and Gray 18th Century Clothing from Colonial Williamsburg 1800s Clothing
Styles Clothing
of the 1830s Dressing Up - A Timeline of Women's Fashion in the 19th Century Victorian
Bridal Gowns from Harper's Bazaar (c. 1867-1884) History of
Victorian Clothing Flappers and Fashion:
Women's Fashions of the 1920s History of Fashion Fashion-Era History
of the Bathing Suit |
Print Resources An abundance of print resources are available to help you research the clothing your ancestor might have worn. Many of these books are available at your local library, favorite bookseller, or online at www.amazon.com. Dressed
for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900 Dating
Old Photographs 1840-1929 Nineteenth-Century
Costume and Fashion 1897
Sears, Roebuck Catalogue Bloomingdale’s
Illustrated 1886 Catalog Everyday
Fashions of the Thirties as Pictured in Sears Catalogs |
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Victorian and Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey by Alison Gernsheim |
Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion, 1840-1900 by Joan L. Severa |
Historical Fashion in Detail: the 17th and 18th Centuries by Avril Hart, Susan North, and Richard Davis. |
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