(Re)Dressing American Fashion – Wear as Witness

A revelatory new approach to understanding fashion in America that focuses on the stories told by worn, imperfect, and ordinary clothes2025 Winner of Midwest Art History Society Awards for Outstanding Catalogs 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 objects—ranging from activist Jae Jarrell’s... Zobrazit více