A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America - Softcover

Joselit, Jenna Weissman

 
9780805054873: A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America

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A social history of clothing uses a mix of advertisements, trade journals, health manuals, sermons, and even songs to trace the importance of clothes in the American psyche, discussing how attire reflected the attitudes and issues of unity, equality, status, masculinity, and democracy. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Jenna Weissman Joselit is currently visiting professor of American studies at Princeton University and the author of numerous works of cultural history, including The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950 (winner of the Jewish Book Award in History). Joselit has also curated and consulted on more than thirty exhibitions throughout the country. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN 10:  080505488X ISBN 13:  9780805054880
Verlag: Metropolitan Books, 2001
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