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Media type:
Book
Title:
The sunbonnet
:
an American icon in Texas
Contains:
Introduction -- Fashionable millinery related to the sunbonnet -- The nineteenth-century sunbonnet -- Twentieth-century transition -- Components of the sunbonnet -- Dress sunbonnets -- Context of twentieth-century work sunbonnets -- Why a sunbonnet? Narrators' reasons -- The sunbonnet and white skin -- Decline (and revival?) of the sunbonnet -- The oral histories -- Afterword: Sunbonnet collection care -- Appendix: Patterns.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
"This first book-length history of the American sunbonnet, which persisted as folk dress late into the twentieth century, discusses what the sunbonnet reveals about American fashion, culture, ideals, and class- and race-related issues. Details sunbonnet construction, care, and design differences; includes oral histories and a variety of visual primary sources"--Provided by publisher