Calico Chronicle offers a rare glimpse into the daily routine of Texas women by showing us their everyday fashions. Photos from the costume collection of The Museum, Texas Tech University, and reproductions from mail-order catalogs of the period illustrate this valuable book.
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Excellent Reference for 19th c. Everyday Garments,
By Susannah Eanes (South Carolina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Calico Chronicle: Texas Women and Their Fashions, 1830-1910 (Paperback)
I have owned this book for years and use it often in my work as a historic garment researcher & seamstress. Copious primary source material in the form of store ads, photographs of original garments in the Museum's collection, and easy-to-understand, logical descriptions of the times and social conditions under which these clothes were worn. ...
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Calico Chronicle: Texas Women and Their Fashions 1830-1910,
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The pictures are beautiful, the information is extensive, and it'll make you want to sew!
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Wonderful Resource,
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This book is amazing. It's a great reference for the everday clothes of women on the frontier. It discusses general fashions along with construction techniques and material choices. There are lots of good pictures of clothes, including some close-ups to see details of construction. The book also talks about how women treated their clothes--where they brought them from, how they re-used and re-fashioned them, how they got new materials, and such. It's particularly excellent in that it focuses largely on the group of women who aren't in many of the other books, those who weren't in a city and couldn't follow Parisian fashions and have new dresses every season. A wonderful book for anyone interested in the fashions of homesteading women.
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In the saga of the old west, they came to Texas from wealthy plantations, from immigrant ships, from sophisticated cities, and from the penal colonies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lower skirt edge, false hem, frontier dress, wool challis, corded silk, decent appearance, blue chambray, silk taffeta, cotton twill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Texas Tech University, New York, New Orleans, San Antonio, Montgomery Ward, Fort Worth, Godey's Lady's Book, Civil War, Arthur's Home Magazine, Harper's Bazar, Mother Hubbard, Peterson's Magazine, Amanda Jackson Hoffman, Colorado City, Fort Griffin, Indian Territory, Llano Estacado, Mary Austin Holley, United States, Austin's Colony, Bastrop County, Central Texas, Clayton Carter, Settled Area, South Plains New!
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In the saga of the old west, they came to Texas from wealthy plantations, from immigrant ships, from sophisticated cities, and from the penal colonies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lower skirt edge, false hem, frontier dress, wool challis, corded silk, decent appearance, blue chambray, silk taffeta, cotton twill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Texas Tech University, New York, New Orleans, San Antonio, Montgomery Ward, Fort Worth, Godey's Lady's Book, Civil War, Arthur's Home Magazine, Harper's Bazar, Mother Hubbard, Peterson's Magazine, Amanda Jackson Hoffman, Colorado City, Fort Griffin, Indian Territory, Llano Estacado, Mary Austin Holley, United States, Austin's Colony, Bastrop County, Central Texas, Clayton Carter, Settled Area, South Plains New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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